His tomb figures were life-size, and no two of them seem alike.

他的陶俑是真人大小，没有任何两个相同。

Western Europe, by contrast, when Liu Tingxun died in 728 and our tomb figures were created, was a remote and underdeveloped backwater, an unstable patchwork of small kingdoms and precarious urban communities.

在刘廷苟去世、墓葬俑完工的728年，西欧还是由许多小国与城邦拼凑在一起、政局混乱、岌岌可危的落后之地。