You can see them on your map, and they really run in strips from north to south.

你们可以在地图上看出来，它们以条状从南至北分布。

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That is, until the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which unearthed for us the great civilizations of the Ancient Near East, of which I have drawn a remarkably life-like map ] here on the board: Mediterranean, I always start with the Mediterranean Ocean, the Nile River, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

直到十九至二十世纪,一些重大的考古发现，才让我们了解到,远古近东的文明,我已经在黑板上画了一幅,栩栩如生的地图了：,地中海，我总是从地中海讲起，尼罗河，底格里斯河，还有幼发拉底河。

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And it tries to find the shortest way, subject to those constraints, to get from Point A to Point B. And there are many, many other instances of this kind of thing.

然后谷歌地图开始寻找，满足这些条件的从A地到B地最短路径,还有很多这样的例子，明天我们会再复习一遍这些内容。

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