The statue was found in eighteen sixty-three in the ancient home of Livia, the wife of Augustus.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

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

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

During the year they return to the Pueblo to take part in the many ceremonies and dances that are held in the ancient plazas.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

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

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

This idea may be rooted in the Ancient Near Eastern political sphere in which sovereigns would single out vassals for the status of special property; and in fact the word used is a word we do find in Exodus.

这个观点也许根植在古代近东的政治氛围中,统治者会将纳贡者独立出来放在特有财产的地位上,并且实际上用在这里的词是我们在,出埃及记中的看到的词语。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

The first point worth noting about this, is that Aristotle did not simply assume slavery was natural, because it was practiced virtually everywhere in the ancient world.

第一点值得注意的是，亚里士多德并未,简单纯地假设奴役是自然的，只因奴役在古代的世界,四处可见。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Says that in the ancient world, Angkor was known for its sophisticated water system.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

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

It was the center of their universe. And it was called the 'hydraulic city' because it had really remarkably massive arrays of barays, which are these giant water tanks and a series of canals and interconnected waterways that was really unparalleled in the ancient world in that part of the world."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

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

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

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

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

According to the research of Ulrike Malmendier at Stanford, she thinks that the stock market in ancient Rome was done on the street-- on the Roman Forum--and she can tell you where.

根据斯坦福大学乌尔丽克克·马尔门迪尔的研究,她认为在古罗马,证券交易就在街边,或城市广场上促成,她能告诉你在哪

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

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

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

In the ancient world,actually,it would've sounded familiar, because there are other stories of other kinds of teachers who'd healed and exorcised demons and performed miracles.

然而在古代，则很耳熟，因为还有其他人，传授知识,治疗百姓，驱魔，创造奇迹的故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In ancient times,however, people believed that the swan was given a special gift of song at the end of its life.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

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

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

VOA: special.2009.04.22

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

University of California biologist Bill Schopf studies ancient fossils and the dirt they are found in on earth.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

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

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

And there is much in his writing that recalls the sort of extraordinary virtues and capacities of the citizens of the ancient republican city-state.

他的著作当中有许多响应,特别是美德,以及公民地位的论点,那是属于古代城邦共和所独有。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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