| 词汇 | all roads lead to rome |
| 词源 | all roads lead to Rome. The ancient Romans built such an ex- cellent system of roads that the saying arose all roads lead to Rome, that is, no matter which road one starts a journey on, he will finally reach Rome if he keeps on traveling. The popular say- ing came to mean that all ways or methods of doing something end in the same result, no one method being better than another. |
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