To cross the Rubicon means to make a decision of permanence.

“to cross the Rubicon”意味着做出一个永久的决定。

That is not the case with today's expression – to cross the Rubicon.

今天的表达方式并非如此：to cross the Rubicon（破釜沉舟；下重大决心；采取断然行动）。

If I cross the Rubicon, I have made a fateful and final decision.

如果我“cross the Rubicon”，表明我做了一个决定命运的最后决定。

So, save cross the Rubicon for a heavy, meaningful decision or action.

所以，当你做出重大的、有意义的决定或行动时，再用“cross the Rubicon”这个表达吧。

She crossed the Rubicon when she decided to move without telling him first.

当她没有事先告诉他就决定搬家时，她下了重大的决心。

We have crossed the Rubicon, he cried as he reached the farther shore. There is now no turning back.

“我们穿过了卢比肯河，”当他到达岸边时喊道。“现在没有回头的机会了。”

Someone who has crossed the Rubicon has reached a point where they cannot change a course of action.

有些人已经“crossed the Rubicon”，这表示他们已经到了无法改变行动方向的地步。

The river was called the Rubicon.

这条河被称为卢比孔河。

Yeah. Dimitry said he can forgive a lot but not this. She crossed the Rubicon when she decided to move without telling him first.

是的。迪米特里说，他可以原谅很多事，但不能原谅这件事。当她决定不事先告诉他就搬走时，她就破釜沉舟了。

The Rubicon, we know, was a very insignificant stream to look at; its significance lay entirely in certain invisible conditions.

我们知道，卢比孔河是一条非常微不足道的溪流。 它的意义完全在于某些看不见的条件。

In fact, the expression to cross the Rubicon, in English, means something very similar.

事实上，英语中to cross the Rubicon 的意思非常相似。

Soon the news was carried to Rome: Caesar has crossed the Rubicon. There was great dismay among those who had plotted to destroy him.

不久，消息传到了罗马：“Caesar 已经穿过了卢比肯河。” 在这些密谋要毁灭他的人中惊起了恐慌。

When our enemies draw a line in the sand and we pass over that line, we could also say we have crossed the Rubicon.

当我们的敌人在沙子上划出一条线，而我们越过这条线时，我们也可以说“we have crossed the Rubicon”（我们已经无法回头了）。

Instead, in January forty nine, Cesar brought down his legions from Gaul, crossed the Rubicon river, and started the Civil War of forty eight to forty six BC.

但是凯撒没有这么做，前49年一月凯撒从高卢南下，穿过卢比肯河，发动了前48年到46年的内战。

He crossed the Rubicon River, famously saying, " The die is cast" or possibly, " Let the die be cast." Sorry, Thought Bubble, sources disagree.

他渡过卢比孔河， 说了句名言， “命已定” ，或者可能是，“让命来吧” 。 抱歉，Thought Bubble， 消息来源不同意。

Julius Caesar decided to cross the Rubicon River with his army, and he began a civil war in ancient Rome - in the Roman Republic at the time.

尤利乌斯凯撒决定率领他的军队渡过卢比孔河，他在古罗马——当时的罗马共和国——开始了一场内战。

But I wormed my way to a front place in the little procession, and was, in fact, the second man to cross the threshold that had been the Rubicon of my life.

但我在小队伍中挤到了最前面，事实上，我是第二个跨过门槛的人，那门槛曾是我生命中的卢比孔河。

A pause—in which I began to steady the palsy of my nerves, and to feel that the Rubicon was passed; and that the trial, no longer to be shirked, must be firmly sustained.

停顿了一下——我开始平复麻痹的神经，并感觉到卢比孔河已经过去了；审判不能再逃避，必须坚定地坚持下去。