These Taos Indians live in the ancient adobe rooms as their ancestors did centuries ago -- without any running water or electric power for lights.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The epic also explains and mirrors the rise of Babel as one of the great cities in the Ancient Near East.

史诗也解释并且映射了巴比伦王国的兴起,它是古代近东繁盛的城市之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So: the great civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the area we refer to as the Fertile Crescent, of which a little part here about the size of Rhode Island is Canaan.

古埃及，美索不达米亚地区,我们称之为新月沃地，这里的这一小部分,跟罗德州岛差不多大的是迦南。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Ancient cultures broke off pieces of obsidian to make knives and weapons such as arrows.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

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

Eight-year-old Sam learned that the ancient description of Mars as red is not exactly right.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

The Holy Roman Empire, as it was known in the time of Machiavelli, was the successor to the ancient Roman state, the older Roman Empire.

神圣罗马帝国，是马奇亚维利那年代的称号，那是古罗马国的继承者，即较古老的罗马帝国。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It seemed the ancient Egyptians could have suffered from atherosclerosis, much as people do today.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

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

Freedom is represented as a strong woman wearing the flowing clothing of ancient Rome.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

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

Camels have served as an important form of transportation since ancient times.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Now you can come to your own conclusions about whether that makes sense and we'll go over different dietary approaches as we go through subsequent classes If you compare ancient humans to what modern people eat, let's look at different constituents of the diet.

关于它是否合理,你们可以自己下结论,接下来让我们会,看看不同的饮食指南,让我们对比下古人和今人的饮食,首先是饮食结构的不同

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The funeral for the demographic decline took place at the same time as an international study on the origins of ancient Venetians.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

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。

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As storm clouds of war rumble across the Atlantic, Welles puts the play not in ancient Rome, but in contemporary Europe with Caesar as a fascist dictator.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

For example, as in the rest of the ancient world, slavery existed in Israel. It did. Even so, and this is not to apologize for it, there is a tendency toward humanitarianism in the laws concerning slavery.

例如，就像远古世界的其它地方一样，奴隶制也存在于,以色列，即使这样，也不必为此感到抱歉，在有关,奴隶制的法律里都有一种人道主义倾向。

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It's home to some of the most ancient Christian monasteries, and its natural caves or 'hermitages,' were used as shelters and burial grounds going back more than 10,000 years.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

But you might say just as Machiavelli broke with the dominant model of Christian universalism, so too did he reject the ancient model of the small, autonomous republican state.

但各位也可读到,当马奇亚维利打破,处于优势之基督普遍主义模式的同时，他也拒绝了,古代模式的，小型自治共和国。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And it's that picture of the universe, Kaufman wants to argue, that is challenged by the monotheistic revolution. Again he sees this as a revolution of ancient Israel.

考夫曼提出，正是这个宇宙的大致框架，受到了来自一神论革命的挑战，在考夫曼看来,这是古以色列的一次革命。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The art of dream interpretation places a very important role in this story, And dream interpretation was a developed science, Particularly in Egypt, and the other parts of Mesopotamia, but the Egyptians were known in the ancient world as dream interpreters.

解梦术在这个故事中有非常重要的作用，解梦术当时是发达的科学，尤其在埃及和美索不达米亚其它地区，但是在埃及人在古代就是以解梦人而被人所知。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So that suggests that the ancient Israelites didn't conceive of God As gendered or necessarily gendered.

也说明在古代以色列人构想中,上帝没有性别也不必有性别。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So Israelite accounts of creation contain ; clear allusions to and resonances of Ancient Near Eastern cosmogonies; but perhaps Genesis 1 can best be described as Demythologizing what was a common cultural heritage.

以色列的创世故事中包含了,对古代近东宇宙学明确的影射和暗示;,也许《创世纪》可以被描述为,对共同文化遗产的去传奇化。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Unlike the ancient near eastern cities, these towns do not grow up around a temple or a marketplace, confluence of rivers as they do in medieval Europe.

和古代近东的城市不同,这些城邦不以庙宇或集市为中心来扩展的,也不像中世纪的欧洲那样以河流交汇点为中心

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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