The pageant promises to be a curious mixture of the ancient and modern.

这次旅行可望是一次古典与现代风格的不寻常的组合。

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In Ancient Arabia, a chorus of women would ululate on the battlefield.

在古阿拉伯半岛，妇女合唱队会在战场上嚎叫。

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Ludo is a version of an ancient Indian racing game.

“鲁多游戏”是一种古代印度竞赛游戏的变体。

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In ancient times,however, people believed that the swan was given a special gift of song at the end of its life.

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Now, the concept of ritual impurity was a central and integral feature of most, if not all, ancient religions.

现在，仪式上的不洁已经是大部分宗教,主要的，整体而言的特点。

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It might be darkness. It might be spirit. Or in ancient Greek religion, a more sort of philosophical polytheism, it might be fate.

它可以是黑暗，也可以是一种精神，在古希腊的一个，偏向于哲学上多神论的宗教中，它可以是命运。

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China is both a more ancient and a more recent enemy than America, having invaded Vietnam in 1979 after Vietnam overthrew the Khmers Rouges in Cambodia.

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The company he took over was a wreck: ancient recipes, a barely functioning call center, nine long-suffering franchisees.

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In the Great Mosque in Sana'a's ancient city, a guard, whispering as pious men pore over Korans, points out Jewish carvings.

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