Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

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I just basically do year-one to the present, it's was nice warm outside, that was the day he was born.

我到现在做了一年，那天户外很晴朗暖和，那天他出生了。

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Every other book in this political science that has since been written, beginning with Aristotle's Politics and moving on to the present day is, in one way or another, an answer, a response to Plato's Republic.

这门政治科学,所用的其它现存读物，从亚里士多德的《政治学》,一直到今日的其它著作，多少都只是，对柏拉图的《理想国》回答或响应。

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