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

VOA: special.2010.02.03

Interestingly, unlike most ancient sanctuaries, the Israelite sanctuary did not contain a statue of the deity.

有趣的是，和大多数古代神殿不同，以色列神殿里没有神的塑像。

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When a slave is freed--and in the Ancient World, in the Roman Empire, most slaves were eventually freed, - unless they just died before long-- they became a freed man.

当一名奴隶被释放。。。在古罗马帝国，几乎所有奴隶最终都会被释放，除非他们很早就去世-,成为脱离奴隶身份的人。

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Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than one thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Consider the following passage that he writes: "As to rebellion against monarchy, one of the most frequent causes is the reading of the books of policy and history of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

他曾写道：,反抗君主统治的叛乱，最主要的原因是,古希腊，罗马关于政治和历史的书籍,在民间的传播。

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

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Now, the concept of ritual impurity was a central and integral feature of most, if not all, ancient religions.

现在，仪式上的不洁已经是大部分宗教,主要的，整体而言的特点。

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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

It can be argued that the Ancient Near Eastern people with the most lasting legacy is a people that had an idea.

应该说，真正拥有持久遗赠的,古代近东人，是有新观点的人。

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In Yemen's ancient villages, where most of the people in the country live, there is often not a lot- not a lot of money, not a lot of water, and not a lot to do.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

And so many scholars, and many people, have remarked that it's not a small irony that the Ancient Near Eastern people with one of the, or perhaps the most lasting legacy, was not a people that built and inhabited one of the great centers of Ancient Near Eastern civilization.

很多学者，很多人都说，拥有世界上最永恒遗产的,古代近东居民，并不是那些修建并居住于，古代近东文明中心的人,这是不是很讽刺呢。

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the word "Jew" isn't something we can really historically use until about this time , so most of our period we're going to be talking about the ancient Israelites to become an Israelite, you simply joined the Israelite community, you lived an Israelite life, you died an Israelite death.

关于Jew这词历史上,直到公元前500年才开始用，所以我们的大多数时间,将会讨论古以色列人,成为一个以色列人，你只要加入以色列人社区，按以色列人方式生活，按其方式安葬。

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