It can be argued that the Ancient Near Eastern people with the most lasting legacy is a people that had an idea.

应该说，真正拥有持久遗赠的,古代近东人，是有新观点的人。

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But for the Greeks, as I think for quite a few other people in the ancient world, death was nothing in the worst sense of the word.

而对希腊人而言,我认为同时对很多其他的,古代人而言皆亦然,死亡是最恐怖的

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In many ways Aristotle there offers, as does Plato, a certain kind of critique of the modern or even the ancient democratic theory of freedom, which is living as one likes.

亚里士多德在很多方面所提出的和柏拉图相似，都是一种对现代,或甚至古代自由民主理论的评判，也就是过一个人想过的生活。

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No. And the reason was in the northern part of Italy, there were Etruscans, another powerful ancient people who control their own area and were not about to have anybody colonizing their territory.

没有,因为意大利北部,居住着伊特鲁里亚人,另一个古代强大的民族,他们控制自己的疆域,并且不允许任何殖民者侵略他们的领土

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So much more important than historical verifiability is the conviction of the ancient Israelites who received and venerated these traditions, and developed them, and embellished them, that God had once acted on their behalf, rescuing them from bondage, binding them to himself in an eternal covenant.

无比史料证明更重要的是,古代以色列人坚定的信仰,他们接受并且崇敬那些传统，将它们发扬，美化它们，认为上帝曾为了他们而行动，将他们从奴役中解救，在永恒的契约中将他们与上帝联系在一起。

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And so many scholars, and many people, have remarked that it's not a small irony that the Ancient Near Eastern people with one of the, or perhaps the most lasting legacy, was not a people that built and inhabited one of the great centers of Ancient Near Eastern civilization.

很多学者，很多人都说，拥有世界上最永恒遗产的,古代近东居民，并不是那些修建并居住于，古代近东文明中心的人,这是不是很讽刺呢。

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