I better say something about oil in the ancient world, so that you get a grip on what's going on here.

我最好说一下油在古代世界的地位,以便你能明白为什么会出售芳香油

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There is very, very good evidence to suggest that ancient Israelites by and large shared this world view.

有古老证据显示古代犹太人,广泛的持有这样的世界观。

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Would this have been permitted ? in any other city of the ancient world?

这种权利会被允许吗,在其它古代世界的城市中？

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This by the way is the portrait of the world; It looks a lot like my map of the Ancient Near East, but it's not.

这也就是世界的图景;,就像我画的古代近东的地图，但它不是那样的。

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The first point worth noting about this, is that Aristotle did not simply assume slavery was natural, because it was practiced virtually everywhere in the ancient world.

第一点值得注意的是，亚里士多德并未,简单纯地假设奴役是自然的，只因奴役在古代的世界,四处可见。

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He collected constitutions, 158 of them in all, from throughout the ancient world.

他收集全部158，条宪法，范围横跨古代世界的全部疆域。

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And so many scholars, and many people, have remarked that it's not a small irony that the Ancient Near Eastern people with one of the, or perhaps the most lasting legacy, was not a people that built and inhabited one of the great centers of Ancient Near Eastern civilization.

很多学者，很多人都说，拥有世界上最永恒遗产的,古代近东居民，并不是那些修建并居住于，古代近东文明中心的人,这是不是很讽刺呢。

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