In essence, mud bricks created by people thousands of years ago have left fingerprints that today’s researchers can identify as pyramids, tombs, or homes.

大体上，研究人员可以从几千年前人们在制造泥砖的时候留下的指纹来辨别金字塔、墓葬和房屋。

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For thousands of years, people have used the wind to sail boats and move water.

几千年来，人们利用风来驾驶船只和移动水。

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For thousands of years, people have known that the best way to understand a concept is to explain it to someone else.

几千年来，人们都知道，理解一个概念的最好方法就是向别人解释它。

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Yet for thousands of years rinderpest has affected people by killing cattle and other animals and causing starvation.

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And the history of human rights ; for some people's gonna start thousands of years ago; And for many people was going to start in the Enlightenment.

人权的历史,对一些人来说几千年前就开始了;,而对很多人而言则是在启蒙运动时发端。

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Some people will say as it began that human rights are thousands of years' old.

有人会说谈到起源,人权应该有几千年的历史了。

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Close to Spion Kop, a stone quarry spills across the track where you can search through the stones to find the remnants of flint spearheads and knife-blades made by the Ngaro people thousands of years ago.

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But Western medicine doctors in China often look down on colleagues who practice traditional Chinese medicine, scoffing that it lacks scientific grounding, even if its precepts have been accepted by billions of people for thousands of years.

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The university archaeology department head, Prof Martin Bell, said the Severn Estuary was exceptional in its evidence of the plants used by Mesolithic people, thousands of years before farming began.

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