Ancient cultures used the spice as an antiseptic and to treat cholera and bronchitis.

在古代文化中，辣椒被用作防腐剂、治疗霍乱和支气管炎。

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Although several ancient cultures practiced mummification, mummies from ancient Egypt are generally more well-preserved than mummies of similar antiquity from other cultures.

尽管有几个古代文化有木乃伊化的习俗，但古埃及的木乃伊通常比其他文化中类似古代的木乃伊保存得更好。

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In different ancient cultures, marriage was more of a business arrangement, joining families together for mutual benefit.

在各种各样的古代文化中，婚姻更多的是一种经营性安排，家人一起加入，互惠互利。

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Ancient cultures broke off pieces of obsidian to make knives and weapons such as arrows.

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Now, texts from Ancient Near Eastern cultures suggest that a central function of the rituals that were performed in sanctuaries was to secure the perpetual aid and blessing of a well-disposed deity.

古近东文化的课文中提出,在圣所里进行的仪式的一个主要功能,是保证能够向神灵获得永久地帮助和祝福。

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Now in Kaufman's view the similarities, therefore, between the Israelites and Ancient Near Eastern religion and cultures that everyone was so busily finding and celebrating, these were in the end similarities in form and external structure, appearance. They weren't essential similarities.

在考夫曼看来，人们苦苦寻找的,犹太与古近东宗教文化的相似点,只是在形式和外部结构上相同罢了,这些并不是必要的。

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Ancient cultures around the world found their own forms of gum.

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The earliest trumpets, used as signaling or ceremonial instruments in many ancient cultures, were very natural: they were made of such things as ram's horns, ox horns, seashells, and elephant tusks.

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Follow that line, and independence sounds like a progressive act to promote friendship between the yeomen of England and the brave hearts of Scotland, liberating two ancient cultures from the moth-eaten baggage of imperialist, embittered Britishness.

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