"The Great Sphinx of Tanis" from ancient Egypt dates back over four thousand six hundred years.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Now, texts from Ancient Near Eastern cultures suggest that a central function of the rituals that were performed in sanctuaries was to secure the perpetual aid and blessing of a well-disposed deity.

古近东文化的课文中提出,在圣所里进行的仪式的一个主要功能,是保证能够向神灵获得永久地帮助和祝福。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

For example,in his play "The Comedy of Errors" Shakespeare borrows certain structural details from the ancient Roman playwright Plautus.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Now the added sugar before, does anybody remember from the Eaton article how ancient humans added sugar to things?

在糖类出现以前,有谁还记得伊顿的一篇文章是谈论,祖先是如何在食品中添加糖类

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

There are treasures of ancient and current art from Asia, Africa,the Pacific islands and Central and South America.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

To use an ancient expression from the 1970's, which only John and I will appreciate, it's really hard to grok what that code is doing, to understand what it's trying to make happen.

我和约翰都会同意，70年代的一句话来概括，那就是很难理解编码的内容，以及它想要完成的工作。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

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 subject of the statue is from the "Aeneid" by Virgil, the most famous poet of ancient Rome.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

This process, I said, this ancient process of taking scabs from patients and introducing them to people you wanted to protect, was called variolation.

这个过程,我想,这个从病人身上取痂,接种到你想保护的人身上的古老过程,叫做天花接种

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Bhangra music is an ancient form of folk music from the Punjab area of India and Pakistan.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

Remember the ancient near eastern kingdoms and their collectivized agriculture, control from the center, the individuals who carry out the farming or the grazing.

大家应该还记得这个古老的,近东王国,记得他们的采集农业,记得他们的中央集权,记得其民众所从事的农耕业和游牧业

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They had been brought from Egypt. The first room in the Egyptian museum welcomes visitors to the world of the pharaohs who ruled ancient Egypt.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

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

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

VOA: special.2009.12.15

He collected constitutions, 158 of them in all, from throughout the ancient world.

他收集全部158，条宪法，范围横跨古代世界的全部疆域。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now, from yogurt, we move on to another ancient and related food -- cheese.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

He expressed his will that there be light, and there was light And that's very different from many Ancient Near Eastern cosmogonies in which there's always a sexual principal at work in creation.

他表达意愿希望有光，于是便有了光,这与古代近东的宇庙学解释有很大出入,在其中，创世过程中有性的因素。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Natural dyes from plant and animal products have been used since ancient times.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Vatican Museums also exhibit objects from an ancient land called Etruria.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

It's an ancient association from classical poetry.

这是跟古典诗歌的组合。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The name came from the ancient Greeks.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

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

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Just a few meters from where mass was celebrated, thousands of pilgrims visited the ancient grotto where according to Christian tradition, Jesus was born.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Now I constructed that little picture out of actual data from the New Testament, and what we have from writings about ancient Christians.

这幅画面是我根据,新约中的真实资料以及古基督教文献，构建出的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The Okefenokee seems primeval. It was formed when waters from an ancient ocean receded and a mammoth sandbar blocked most of the water flow to the sea.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

That's very different from the Greeks, very different from other people in the Ancient Mediterranean.

这与希腊人非常不同，与其他古代地中海地区也不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So, which is it, which is part of the question that came from over here, You have on the one hand the claim that Israelite religion is essentially continuous with Ancient Near Eastern polytheism.

刚才那个男生问的是什么问题？,一方面，有人说以色列宗教从本质上,和古近东的多神论是一脉相承的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选