But the experts said that it was not unusual for ancient Egyptians to eat duck, geese and beef.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

Now, ancient Hebrew descriptions of Yahweh employ very similar language in the poetic passage here in Exodus 15, but also in other poetic passages.

出埃及记》15，犹太人对耶和华的描述,借用了这段诗的片段，还有其他的。

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It's really great, right up to sort of the 20th century, but not so much that, mostly ancient.

这真的很好，一直到20世纪，但是很少现代的的，大部分都是古代的。

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but star Sam Worthington says the exploits of Perseus are firmly rooted in the ancient tales of mythological heroes.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Legally, that's correct, but you see cases in letters and all kinds of stuff from the Ancient World that women actually were more unofficially part of their husband's house.

法律上是这样的，但是从古代书信,及其他各类文献中发现,女子更像是丈夫家中的非正式成员。

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Some of the best mosaics in Egypt date to ancient Rome, but the art form was used in the jewelry set of the Pharoah Tutankhamun.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

This by the way is the portrait of the world; It looks a lot like my map of the Ancient Near East, but it's not.

这也就是世界的图景;,就像我画的古代近东的地图，但它不是那样的。

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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

They go back to ancient times, but I'm going to talk about some of our modern institutions and I'm going to talk first about discount bonds.

它能追溯到远古时代,不过今天要讲的是现代商业机构的利率,首先要讲的是贴现债券

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This is part of the arrogance that is characteristic of the Ancient Greeks, but at the same time, and right away at the beginning we're getting to such a very Greek thing, a Greek characteristic.

这部分体现了古希腊人的特点,傲慢,但与此同时——,我们现在就要谈到到一个非常希腊式的事情,一个希腊人的特点——

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But Herodotus talks about these ancient people.

但是希罗多德谈到了这些古代人。

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But since life expectancy in the Ancient World was much less than ours, you didn't have usually several generations in these households, because older people just died.

但是古代人的寿命没我们长，一般不会出现几代同堂，因为年纪大了去世了。

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But,notice, that would look kind of familiar to you in the Ancient World.

不过注意，在古代你可能觉得熟悉。

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Now, I don't know how far back it goes but it must be that in ancient times some people would say, all right you're going to be doing more work or you're contributing more to this enterprise, we'll give you a bigger share of the profits.

我不知道这能追溯到什么时候,但在古时候肯定有人说,好吧,你比别人干得多,你对公司的贡献更大,我们会把收入的大头给你

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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。

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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。

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They were selling that in ancient Rome, but you might think, but why just for burial?

人们在古罗马时期销售丧葬险,你可能会想,为什么只有丧葬险

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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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But Klawans also asserts, and I quote, that "Imitatio dei does not exhaustively explain sacrifice in ancient Israel," and in fact, we should be surprised if any one single theory would indeed explain sacrifice.

但是克洛文同时也宣称，“模仿并不能完全地解释股以色列的献祭，“,事实上，如果有某个独立的理论真的解释了献祭,我们会十分惊讶。

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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。

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But then an old Yalie who took this course when he was very young, and later became an ancient Greek historian, took the wonderfully outlandish device of answering this question.

有一位老耶鲁人在年轻时选了这门课,后来成了一名历史学家,专攻古希腊史,他极其出色地回答了这个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But for the ancient Greeks that was not enough.

但对于希腊人来说,这样是不够的

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But those basic structures are part of any kind of Greek city in the Ancient World.

这些基本结构,是古代希腊城市一部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But if we look at the society that emerges, this Dark Age society that emerges from the ancient world of Mycenae, what you have is a rare human experience.

如果我们仔细观察这渐渐浮出水面的社会,这个从古代迈锡尼文明浮现出来的,黑暗时代的社会,你会得到一些相当宝贵的经验

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