If you want a real world example of this, think about the third Century B.C., someone can correct me afterwards.

现实世界也有这样的例子,大概在公元前三世纪,如果我说错了请大家来纠正

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the Dead Sea Scrolls.] And some of them date back to the fourth and third century .So do you understand now why everybody was so excited?

其中一些文卷甚至能够追溯到公元前,三四世纪，所以你们应该明白为什么这么令人兴奋了吧！

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Not Hannibal Lecter Hannibal the general in the third Century B.C..

我说的不是汉尼拔·莱格,而是公元前三世纪的汉尼拔将军

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I think it's the third Century B.C.

我记得是公元前三世纪

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And so around this time,the third,fourth,and fifth century, we get different codices,different codexes,that is books.

所以在主后第三至第五世纪，出现了各种抄本，也就是书。

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You hadn't had,yet,the creeds that would try to settle these things for good, like you did in the third and fourth century--the fourth century.

你没有固定的判断标准,可以永远解决这些事情，它不像主后第四世纪。

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