If it wasn't around a thousand years ago or is made by man (and not nature), chances are you don't need it.

如果这种食物在一千年前不存在或是人工合成的，那么很有可能你并不需要他们。

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Solomon had thought as far as that more than two thousand years ago; she herself, though not in the van of thinkers, had got much further.

早在两千多年以前，所罗门已经想到了；而她自己虽然不是思想家，但是她想到的还要深刻些。

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I am not teasing Lao Zi, but the level of recognization a thousand years ago is far behind that of today.

不要以为我在调侃老子，而是千年前的认知与现在的认知是肯定落后的。

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It's because in the old days, which was three or four years ago, not a thousand years ago, the video stores, namely Blockbuster, bought their videos depending on how many people came on an opening weekend.

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Feminist theologians argue that the lack of female disciples was not unusual two thousand years ago, and point instead to the key role held by other women in his life: his friends Mary and Martha, Lazarus's sisters, and the prostitute Mary Magdalene.

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