Spices themselves had always been considered special or magical not just for eating and this was already true in the ancient world where legends about spices were abundant.
香料本身一直被认为是特殊的或神奇的，而不仅仅是食物，这在古代就已成为事实，有着大量关于香料的传说。
Chinese literature is one of the major parts of China's ancient traditions, and Chinese poetry is just like the best prize in this famous culture's literary treasure house.
中国文学是中国古代传统的重要组成部分之一，而中国诗歌就像是这个著名文化的文学宝库中的最佳宝藏。
Until just recently, most of us thought the sand had come from an ancient mountain range fairly close by that flattened out over time.
直到最近，我们大多数人都以为这些沙子来自附近的一个古老山脉，它随着时间的推移逐渐变得平坦。
Ancient rivers were typically just wide, sheet-like flows of water.
典型的古代的河流只是宽阔的、像平板一样的水流。
Whatever caused the ancient fluctuations in isotope ratios, the researchers contend, those variations are a sign that climate back then varied from year to year just as it does today.
研究者们主张，不论是什么因素导致了氧同位素在古代的波动，这些波动确实证明了当时气候也曾逐年变化，就如同现在一样。
They are just as applicable today as they were to ancient Jews living in Israel.
他们适用于当今，正如适用于生活在以色列的古代犹太人一样。
Another shining example for cycling fans is Cambridge, where an echo of Mr Major's Albion can just about be discerned in the dons and students cycling between ancient colleges.
自行车热的一个亮点在剑桥，在那里你可以发现梅杰先生当年所说的景象。 骑车人穿梭于各个古老的校园，其中既有教师，也有学生。
For example, new high-throughput sequencers turned out to work best with small fragments of dna-just what degraded ancient samples yield.
举例来说，新型高吞吐量测序仪对小片段DNA的测序效果最好，而从受损的古生代样本提取出的正是这种小片段。
In fact, you have entire departments of ancient near-eastern studies arise in modern universities, and they don't arise just because people are automatically interested in near-eastern cultures.
事实上，在现代大学里有一整个系，研究古代近东，它们的出现不是因为，人们对近东文化自动产生兴趣。
But scientists just reported discovering traces of starch on some ancient stone tools. Which suggests that there were probably more than a few bakers in the bunch way back when.
但是科学家报道在石器时代发现的面粉遗址暗示了在那个时候就有些面包师。
Rock of Cashel: This ancient fortified home of kings is just the tip of the iceberg for moody and forlorn ruins hidden away in the surrounding green expanse.
卡什尔之石城堡：戒备森严的古老寝宫仅是卡什尔之石城堡的冰山一角而已，在周围数不尽的绿苔中，还隐藏着许多被世人遗忘于角落、记载着世事无常的古迹。
It doesn't really look like a building-just some low stone walls abutting an ancient terraced retaining wall 60 feet high.
事实上，它们根本不能称之为建筑——那只是几堵低矮的石墙而已，毗连着一面高达18米的古老阶地挡土墙。
And just as I'm impressed by these signs of China's journey to the 21st century, I'm eager to see those ancient places that speak to us from China's distant past.
看到这些标志着中国奔向21世纪的元素符号时，我惊叹不已。同时，我也非常渴望能参观那些讲述中国辉煌历史的文明古迹。
They were selling that in ancient Rome, but you might think, but why just for burial?
人们在古罗马时期销售丧葬险,你可能会想,为什么只有丧葬险
They actually are pretty much only being taught historical criticism, what the text meant in the ancient world, just like I am teaching you in this class.
但实际上大多数老师，只教了他们历史批判主义，教他们如何用历史眼光看待经文，就像我在课上教你们的一样。
The most destructive century in all the millennia of human history was only just concluding; it was not buried in some deep, dark ancient past.
在人类数千年的历史中，最具有破坏性的一个世纪刚刚告一段落，人们还没有将它埋入深不可测的上古深渊。
I just see a group of modern people wearing ancient costumes and performing.
我感觉就是看一群现代人穿着古装在表演而已。
Its cultivation may be ancient—dating as far back as 5,000 years ago—but cotton, and its characteristically soft, downy fibers, could be just what modern medicine has been waiting for.
棉花的种植历史也许非常悠久——可以追溯到迄今5,000年前——但它和它富有特性、柔软光滑的纤维可能正是现代医学所要寻找的东西。
It just happens — it's instinctive, and it's a very primal aspect of human behavior that goes back to ancient herd mentality.
是啊，会这样的——这是一种本能反应。追根溯源，打哈欠这一行为在远古时期就是人类最早的行为之一。
The deliverance of Jerusalem is not just another of ancient history’s sidelights, Aubin asserts, but one of its pivotal events.
奥宾认为，耶路撒冷围城危机的结束，并非是古代历史上轻描淡写的一笔，而是一个重要事件。
Liberal education served the ancient Greeks well until they got too rich to allow it, just as it served America the same way until we got too rich to allow it.
自由教育在古希腊发挥了良好的作用，直到他们变得富有以至于不能再允许它的实行，在美国同样如此。
The ancient Greeks were perhaps a little more modest than those of us who have come to feel that this world was created just for our use.
古希腊人也许比我们这些认为世界仅是为我们人类使用而创造的人更加谦虚一点。
The ancient world is just not like our world.
古代世界和我们的世界不一样。
This ancient disease has been pushed back to just a few endemic pockets in six countries.
这种由来已久的疾病被击退，现仅在六个国家的少数地区流行。
While the children napped, I typed on my ancient typewriter.I wrote what I felt.It took nine months, just like a baby.
孩子们进入梦乡时，我就在那台老掉牙的打字机前打字，我写下自己的感受，这花了我九个月的时间，就像十月怀胎。
By this we mean modern people just have the notion that really pre-modern people didn't so much, that the world was radically different in the ancient world.
这是指现代人有，现代以前的人所没有的见解，现代世界和古代世界完全不一样。
Or is it just a harmless vestige of some ancient pagan ritual?
或者它仅仅是一些古老的异教仪式无害的痕迹？
Or is it just a harmless vestige of some ancient pagan ritual?
或者它仅仅是一些古老的异教仪式无害的痕迹？
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