It is about a bird named Francine who travels back in time to learn about her ancient relatives, the dinosaurs.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

Now, the concept of ritual impurity was a central and integral feature of most, if not all, ancient religions.

现在，仪式上的不洁已经是大部分宗教,主要的，整体而言的特点。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It might be darkness. It might be spirit. Or in ancient Greek religion, a more sort of philosophical polytheism, it might be fate.

它可以是黑暗，也可以是一种精神，在古希腊的一个，偏向于哲学上多神论的宗教中，它可以是命运。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Huge amounts of water ran into a low area in the dry, waterless desert that had once been an ancient lake.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

But that wouldn't have been sort of a normal, everyday way to talk about a stranger in the ancient world.

但即便在古代，对陌生人这么称呼也不并不常见。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

His work covers over three hundred fifty square meters of ceiling in a room that contains treasures from ancient Greece.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

So, for example, when you have the issue like Hebron Right? So there is a lot of religious tension there. Because ... it's an ancient side, or Jerusalem.

比如说,当你有希伯伦这个问题,就会有很多宗教的紧张局面，因为。,这和历史有关，或是关乎耶路撒冷。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Since ancient times, thinkers including the Greek astronomer Ptolemy believed in the existence of a huge continent on the South Pole.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

I better say something about oil in the ancient world, so that you get a grip on what's going on here.

我最好说一下油在古代世界的地位,以便你能明白为什么会出售芳香油

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In the ancient forests of the Lapland area of Finland, many people in the Sami native group make a living raising reindeer.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

In ancient culture people worried a great deal about being properly buried, so that's an interesting concept.

在古文明时期,人们很重视死后能否安然入葬,所以那是个很有意思的想法

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The ancient Egyptians used a drawing of the eye of Horus as a magic sign to protect themselves from disease,suffering and evil.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Those of you who would like to know more about it, I recommend reading more Platonic dialogues or taking a class in ancient philosophy.

如果你们当中有谁想做更多的了解,我推荐去读柏拉图对话集,或者选修古代哲学课程

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For example, hundreds of thousands of people a year visit the ancient buildings of Machu Picchu in Peru.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

This is Yeats in costume, costumed as a figure from Irish myth, as an ancient bard, mad King Goll, which is the furthest thing from a modern poet.

穿着奇装异服的叶芝，打扮成爱尔兰传说中的人物，过去的吟唱诗人，疯癫的郭尔王，他与这位现代诗人相隔甚远。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Their ancient languages contain a great deal of information about environmental systems and species of plants and animals that are unknown to scientists.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The rock formations there are the result of deposits made by ancient lakes and rivers over a period of about twenty million years.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

So, what we're dealing here with is a situation where the ancient Greeks were very much into mathematics as a way of explaining the world and explaining music in particular And they thought these ratios were primary.

那么,我们现在要潜心琢磨,古希腊人热衷于,用数学来解释世界,尤其是音乐的这种情形,他们认为这些比例才是基础

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Dolly Sods once was covered with a dense ancient forest of red spruce and hemlock trees.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

And Jenner, because he was a trained physician, because he knew something about the scientific method, did something that these more ancient healers had not done in the past, was that he wrote down what he did.

而詹纳,因为他是个受过训练的医生,懂得一些科学方法,他做了那些古老的医生们没有做的事,就是记录了自己的所作所为

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Ancient Greek myths told of a time long ago when people lived in peace and happiness.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

There are lots of Ancient Near Eastern stories of ; Gods fashioning humans from clay; We have depictions of gods as potters at a potter's wheel just turning out lots of little humans.

也有很多古代近东故事,关于上帝用黏土造人;,我们看来上帝就像转盘旁边的陶艺工匠,造出许多小小的人类。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The situation is made worse by the fact that its ancient buildings, built on a body of water called a lagoon, are slowly sinking.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

So Roman slavery and the freedom of that was actually one way that a few people in the Ancient World recognized some kind of social mobility, which was very rare in the Roman Empire.

所以罗马奴隶制以及奴隶释放制,被古代部分人认为是,某种社会阶级流动，在罗马帝国很少见。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

To get below the ancient lunar rocks, NASA crashed a rocket into the moon's south pole.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Interestingly, unlike most ancient sanctuaries, the Israelite sanctuary did not contain a statue of the deity.

有趣的是，和大多数古代神殿不同，以色列神殿里没有神的塑像。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He rented a small room on the top floor of a dark and ancient palace.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

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

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This is not a class in ancient philosophy.

这不是在古代哲学课课堂上

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选