Snakes are symbols of renewed life and fertility in the East ; because they shed their skins so they seem to be eternally young; and they're also phallic symbols.

在东方，蛇一般都是新生命或者多产的象征,因为，蛇的蜕皮，似乎能使它永远年轻;,蛇同样也是生殖力的象征。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There are of course, important ways in which Israel's use of the storm god motif diverges from that of other Ancient Near Eastern stories.

当然，犹太人对暴风之神主题的利用,和古代东方的故事，在很多方面有很大的不同。

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They might put up an official inscription in an Eastern city in Latin, but they'd almost always, if it was an official inscription, it would also be listed in Greek.

他们也许用拉丁语在某个东方城市，发布官方告示，如果是官方的，同样总是会附上希腊语。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In the same period,there is clear-cut,unmistakable, oriental influence on Greek pottery and other things that they make.

在同一时期,有明显的证据表明,希腊受到了东方的影响,这表现在他们制作的陶器和其他器物上

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Most of the influence,I suspect, was going one way in those days- from the more advanced civilization of the east to the Greeks.

而且我怀疑,绝大多数影响,在那些日子中是单边流向的,从东方更高级的文明流向希腊

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And this is very important, because the Romans, as their power grew in the East, they simply moved increasingly into the eastern Mediterranean and they adopted the whole Greek system, the Greek world, and they didn't even try to make it non-Greek.

这点非常重要，因为随着罗马人的势力在东方日渐壮大，他们不断朝地中海东部推进,并采取了全套希腊系统，希腊世界，甚至没有作出任何非希腊式的改变。

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It is inconceivable the Greeks could have developed a civilization that they did without contact with these eastern civilizations and learned a great deal from them.

难以想象,希腊人可以在脱离与东方的联系,并未向东方学习的情况下,建立一个与其同样伟大的文明

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