These shrines may have been associated with some kind of contact with ancestors, some kind of cult of the dead.

这些圣坛也和某些东西有关联,与祖先或者对逝者的崇拜有关。

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It's not surprising, therefore, that people should be eating more fruits and vegetables, and our ancestors were eating much more.

因此毫无疑问,人们应该吃更多的水果和蔬菜,而我们的祖先吃的更多

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So, what I'm saying is, when you leave the place you were born, you leave your ancestors as well.

我想说的是,当你离开故乡,你也就离开了你的祖先

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Your question relates not only to my personal family, but to the ancestors in faith, the little ancestors in terms of slaves.

你的问题不仅与我个人的家庭有关，更与有信仰的祖先们相关，与早期的奴隶们有关。

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And if this myth of origins were the fabrication of a later writer, then surely they would have written the story in such a way as to give their ancestors a less tenuous hold or claim, connection, to the land.

如果这个神话的开端是后世作者伪造的，那他们当然会像这样在故事中赋予其祖先较强的控制力,或者说所有权，建立其与这片土地较为紧密的联系。

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The laws are not only like our parents, they are like our ancestors, as we might say, who are owed respect and piety.

法律不只像是我们的父母，也像是我们的祖先，我们可以说，他们值得我尊重与孝敬。

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It was your ancestors who joined.

那是你的先人同意的。

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So,he gets a carriage,he rents a carriage, and he goes around as a tourist, and he goes to Notre Dame, and he goes to Sainte-Chapelle, and he goes to pay homage at what they thought were the remains of his departed ancestors.

他有一辆马车,他租了一辆马车,他像游客一样四处转悠,他去了巴黎圣母院,还去了圣礼拜堂,向他已逝去祖先的遗体,致以敬意

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Why would you invent a myth of origins in which your ancestors are slaves?

为什么要杜撰关于起源的神话,在这神话中，你的祖先却是奴隶？

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Well, that's thanks to your ancestors and thanks to the conditions that they've inherited, that you would seek out a diet that has those particular conditions.

其实,这要归因于我们的先祖,是由于祖先们传承下来的,在特定时期的饮食结构决定的

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The Canaanite roots of Israel's ancestors are clear.

以色列祖先的迦南根源是非常清楚的。

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Fiber is related at a risk for some diseases, particularly some cancers, and therefore the low fiber intake that we have now compared to what our ancestors had is a factor.

纤维素可以抵抗一些疾病,尤其是某些癌症,相对古人来说我们摄入量偏低,因此我们对一些癌症的抵抗能力就低

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As I understand it, this is also connected with people gone before us, the ancestors, or however they're phrased, really being in touch with this continuum of life.

根据我的理解，这也与我们前面的古人相关，祖先也好，其他的名字也好，一切都是感受到，but，it’s为了,生命的延续。

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Some people have said let's go back to what our ancestors ate.

有些人建议我们该返璞归真,学习祖先

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