“鲁多游戏”是一种古代印度竞赛游戏的变体。
古代的时候，人们每隔一定的距离就会设定驿站。
In ancient time, courier station would be established at regular intervals.
她居住的内陆国家是一片沙漠地，曾是古代撒哈拉商队路线的枢纽。
Her landlocked country is a desert land that was once a hub for ancient Saharan caravan routes.
在古代，训练有素的记忆是一笔巨大的财富，尤其是在公共生活中。
In the ancient world, a trained memory was an immense asset, particularly in public life.
根据古代雅典的记载，每年雅典的年轻妇女都要合作织成一件新的羊毛长袍，用来装饰雅典娜女神的雕像。
Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress a statue of the goddess Athena.
古代史学家写过有关一个沉没海底大陆的事迹。
Ancient historians wrote of a lost continent beneath the ocean.
中国是古代文明的发源地之一。
我想讲讲一个驯养马的古代文化。
I'd like to talk about an ancient culture that domesticated horses.
这是一个古代和当代和谐并行的地方。
It is a place where the ancient and contemporary happily go along on parallel tracks.
它不仅仅是一条古代的国际贸易路线。
在古代中国，手扇几乎是唯一的帮助人们保持凉爽的工具。
In ancient China, hand fans were almost the only ones to help people keep cool.
像埃及这样的古代文明面临的挑战之一是计时，也就是日历。
One of the challenges that faced ancient civilizations like Egypt was timekeeping, calendars.
维基词典指出，“无附加条件”这一说法的起源可以追溯到古代。
Wiktionary tells us that the origin of the expression "no strings attached" may date back to ancient times.
形成这些沉积物的河流实际上离一个叫做特提斯海的古代海洋不远。
The river that formed these deposits was actually not far from an ancient ocean known as the Tethys Sea.
无论如何，那次谈话让我想到了一些考古发现，它们确实改变了我们对古代文明的理解。
At any rates, that conversation got me thinking about archaeological finds that really changed our understanding of ancient civilizations.
分和秒是古代美索不达米亚使用的一种不常见的60进制数字系统的口头和书面表达。
Minutes and seconds are the verbal and written representations of an uncommon base-60 number system used in ancient Mesopotamia.
当然存在着一种伟大的艺术，而且它的存在揭示了古代人类并非没有智慧、技能和敏感性。
Certainly a great art exists, and its existence reveals that ancient human beings were not without intelligence, skill, and sensitivity.
它说，确定考古遗址中是否有古代壁炉的一种方法是检查土壤中的磷。
It said that one way to determine if there was an ancient fireplace at an archaeological site was to check the soil for phosphorus.
公元815年，袁真因工作失误，被派往中国古代一个贫穷偏僻的地方——通州。
In 815, Yuan Zhen did something wrong with his job, so he was sent to Tongzhou, which was a poor and remote place in ancient China.
1897年，夏威夷最后一位在位君主利留卡拉尼女王写道：“古代夏威夷人是天文学家。”
"The ancient Hawaiians were astronomers," wrote Queen Liliuokalani, Hawaii's last reigning monarch, in 1897.
所有这些发现似乎表明，它们是一个古代文明的遗迹，与当时其它更著名的文明一样先进。
All these findings seem to indicate that they are the remains of an ancient civilization that was every bit as advanced as other more famous civilizations of the time.
一项针对古代和现代大象的研究得出一个出人意料的结论：非洲大象已经分化成两个不同的物种。
A recent study of ancient and modern elephants has come up with the unexpected conclusion that the African elephant is divided into two distinct species.
古代玛雅人也许经验更丰富，做得更好，但他们也一定会面临干旱和飓风引起谷物歉收的风险。
The ancient Maya were presumably more experienced and did better, but nevertheless they too must have faced risks of crop failures from droughts and hurricanes.
吉萨大金字塔是古代世界奇迹之一。
The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the Wonders of the Ancient World.
一些古代人认为闰日是不吉利的。
一些古代人可能会告诉伴侣不要这样做。
Some ancient peoples would likely tell couples not to do it.
古代占星家认为宇宙由七颗行星统治；学过莎士比亚的人会记得，人的一生被分为七个时代。
The ancient astrologers believed that the universe was governed by seven planets; students of Shakespeare will recall that the life of man was divided into seven ages.
你可以说，安提基西拉装置是一种非常精确的日历，非常符合日历对古代民族很重要的道理。
You could say that the Antikythera Mechanism was a very precise calendar, which stands to reasons calendars were very important to ancient peoples.
古代中国人则用另一种方式。
在古代，曾经有一位非常聪明的人。
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