依照逻辑推论，我们的祖先在弄清1年是什么意思之前，不可能举行过每年一度的节庆。

Logic dictates that our ancestors could not have held a yearly festival until they figured what a year was.

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这可能源于我们的祖先需要在潮湿的地面奔跑。

This may develop from our ancestors' need to run on the wet ground.

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在人类进化史的绝大多数时间里，我们的祖先都生活在部落里。

For most of our evolutionary history, our ancestors lived in tribes.

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It's not surprising, therefore, that people should be eating more fruits and vegetables, and our ancestors were eating much more.

因此毫无疑问,人们应该吃更多的水果和蔬菜,而我们的祖先吃的更多

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So it was good. I kind of got to know my own heritage and my own land.

所以去伦敦上学很好。我可以了解我们的祖先和国家。

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So in Deuteronomy 5:2-3: "The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb . It was not with our fathers that the Lord made this covenant but with us, the living, every one of us who is here today."

那么在申命记5章2-3节耶和华我们的神在和烈山,与我们立约这约不是与我们祖先立的,乃是与我们今日在这里存活之人立的“

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