She also loved reading about Alexander the Great, who was told that whoever untied the Gordian knot would conquer Asia.

她还喜欢读有关亚历山大大帝的故事，据说谁能解开“戈尔迪之结”，谁就能征服亚洲。他掏出剑来砍了它，而是，或者传说是这样。布托说，基本上，她最喜欢的书都是关于伟大成就者的。

The solution to where I was stuck, I saw, could be pretty much the same as the situation that got me going—an explosion instead of a plague, but still one quick, hard slash of the Gordian knot.

我发觉，要从我卡住的困境中摆脱出来，可以用前面驱动故事发展相似的办法——这次不是瘟疫而是爆炸，总之就是快刀斩乱麻的方法。