Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

So when you see the word "book" in ancient Greek or Latin, they didn't think of this. They thought of scrolls.

当看到古希腊语或拉丁语的书这个字，他们不会想到这个，他们会想到书卷。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

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

Doctor Thomas helped Doctor Allam organize the mummy study to find out what modern methods could show about heart disease in ancient patients.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

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

Workers in ancient Egypt had made little progress in preparing burial rooms for the king.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

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

One of the most famous places in ancient Rome was the Circus Maximus.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

The first and the sharpest break with this common human experience came in ancient Greece.

最早与人类社会这个普遍传统,相悖且最为鲜明的例子就是古希腊

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And we will tell about what imaging tests found in ancient human remains.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

We can think about this in an evolutionary way, as I've alluded to a lot, but if you think about it from a completely Darwinian point of view, and you think about these food conditions where food would be scarce in ancient times.

我们可以从生物演化的角度来看这个问题,我已经提到过很多了,但是如果你完全从达尔文学说的角度思考,从食品条件想想,在古代,哪里可能出现食物短缺

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"In ancient Rome,the gladiators went into the arena with these words on their lips: let me win,but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

The martyrs in the Easter Rebellion of 1916 become ancient Irish warriors, and we'll talk about that next time.

916年复活节起义中的烈士6,化身为古代爱尔兰骑士，这个我们下次课再谈。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Even in ancient times, people liked to eat lettuce.

VOA: special.2009.04.28

Clearly early Christianity has got to be studied in the context of Ancient Judaism, and so we'll do so next time.

所以显然早期基督教必须放在，古犹太教背景中研究，我们下堂课会讲。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

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

We can go back to ancient Egypt where there khemeia is reference in the hieroglyphs to term khemeia, which, among other things, meant chemical processes for embalming the dead.

我们可以追溯到古埃及,那的象形文字提到了词语,这是，在其他事情当中，意味着,化学过程处理防腐尸体。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

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

This role," he says, "was taught covertly by ancient writers. It was taught covertly by ancient writers," he says in chapter 18.

他说，这个角色是古代的作家们,秘密授予的，是古代的作家们,秘密授予的，他在第十八章中说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

There are a variety of ways, in other words, in which this story, just like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, could end.

有很多种方式，换言之，在这个故事里，就像《古航海家之歌》一样，结局有很多种可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

Finally, there is this ancient issue about sleeping in class.

最后一点,就是上课睡觉这个古老的话题

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

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

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

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

This legendary birth story has important parallels in Ancient Near Eastern and other literature.

这个传奇的诞生也有对应的故事,在古代近东以及其他一些地区。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选