So clearly it's an old story and we have even older prototypes for elements of the story as well.

证明，这是一个古老的故事,我们甚至可以找到更古老的故事原型。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

All right, this is actually a very old piece of imperative knowledge for computing square roots, it's attributed to Heron of Alexandria, although I believe that the Babylonians are suspected of knowing it beforehand.

好，这是一个很古老的,关于计算平方根的程序性知识，是亚历山大的海伦提出的，不过我怀疑在那之前,巴比伦人就已经猜想过了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Every regime is an answer consciously or not to the oldest political question of all ? who governs? Who should govern?

每一个政体都是答案，无论是否有此自觉,每一个都是最古老政治问题的答案,由谁统治？谁该被统治？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now, let's go back to a theory which has at least got the virtue of being very old, although hardly anybody believes it anymore.

现在,让我们再回去看一个理论,它的优势在于非常古老,虽然已经没人再相信它

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Just before the death scene, there's a long myth, which I draw your attention to but I don't want to discuss in any kind of detail.

我想让你们注意,在这个死亡场景之前,有一个古老的传说,但我不想去讨论任何的细节

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We're going to take up this question initially of it's an old, old, old American question how peculiar, or distinctive, or different is the American South?

我们要继续探讨一个问题,一个十分古老的美国问题,美国南方究竟多么特殊,多么与众不同

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

These are sort of flailing away at different ideas but another way of doing--an older way is proposed by Plato, who viewed laughter as a form of bonding against a common enemy.

我现在说的都是各种猜想,但从另一个角度看，一个古老的角度,这是由柏拉图提出的，他认为笑是一种巩固感情的形式,对抗共同的敌人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

All right. What do you do when you've found the bug and you need to fix it?

好了，当你发现错误并修改它们的时候,你该怎么做？记住一个古老的法则？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Again one of the oldest questions of political science very rarely asked by the political science of today that is very skeptical of the language of statesmanship.

再者，其中一个最古老的政治科学问题,今日的政治科学鲜少有人问到的是,政治语言极度深不可测,以其最古老的意义来看。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This is also not modern.

还有一个古老的例子

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Almost all pro-slavery writers at one point or another will dip into the Old Testament, or dip into the New Testament they especially would dip to the Old to show how slavery is an ancient and venerable institution.

几乎所有的亲奴主义作家,都或多或少地接触过《旧约》,或阅读过《新约》,特别是《旧约》,因为他们,需要证明奴隶制是一个古老而庄严的制度

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选