The marathon was never one of the ancient Olympic events, although its origin dates back to another episode in ancient Greek history.

人人都知道奥运会有个比赛项目叫马拉松。它起源于历史事件，但它可是现代奥运才有的项目。

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The social state which exists in the same period of ancient Greek history has a big effect on philosophy, which makes philosophy present definite stages and levels.

古希腊历史上不同时期的社会状况对哲学产生了重要影响，呈现出明确的阶段性、层次性。

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In the famous course on ancient Greek history taught by Donald Kagan, students would applaud at the end of each lecture to acknowledge Kagan's impassioned eloquence.

在由唐纳德·卡根教授的著名课程古希腊史中，他每次演讲之后学生都报以掌声以感谢他那富有激情的雄辩。

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Hard to believe now, but in the early 1960s, most U.S. public schools still taught Latin, trigonometry, calculus, ancient Greek and Roman history, philosophy and civics.

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Whereas the modern Olympics are an international competition -- a record 201 countries will be participating in the 2004 Olympiad -- the ancient Games were, for most of their 1200-year history, an exclusively Greek institution.

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