Eight-year-old Sam learned that the ancient description of Mars as red is not exactly right.

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If you think about the modern food environment compared to the ancient one, so let's say somebody getting something at a fair compared to the old days.

如果将现在的饮食环境,与过去的相比,例如比较在现在和过去的人们,在集市上能买到哪些东西

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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

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Almost all pro-slavery writers at one point or another will dip into the Old Testament, or dip into the New Testament they especially would dip to the Old to show how slavery is an ancient and venerable institution.

几乎所有的亲奴主义作家,都或多或少地接触过《旧约》,或阅读过《新约》,特别是《旧约》,因为他们,需要证明奴隶制是一个古老而庄严的制度

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