The raven answers with a single word: "Nevermore."
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where the accent's totally different and I didn't understand a single word.
那里的口音完全不同,我一个词也听不懂。
You don't have to translate every single word.
你不必翻译每个词。
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。
There is one exception. In the sixth century, I think it's around--imagine around 550 or something like that, the Greeks settle a single colony in the Delta of the Nile of Egypt at a place called Naucratis, and the root of that word is ship.
但有一个例外,在公元前六世纪,我想大概是,在公元前550年左右,希腊在埃及尼罗河三角洲,一个叫诺克拉提斯的地方建立了殖民地,Naucratis的意思就是船
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