In the ancient world,actually,it would've sounded familiar, because there are other stories of other kinds of teachers who'd healed and exorcised demons and performed miracles.

然而在古代，则很耳熟，因为还有其他人，传授知识,治疗百姓，驱魔，创造奇迹的故事。

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So the Pax Romana may have sounded great, if you were an elite, but if you were not in the elite, it may have seemed more oppressive than anything.

所以罗马和平对精英阶层听着很美好，但如果你不是精英阶层，就会觉得更像是压迫。

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Rather, you all sounded like, "Blublublublublub" without any pauses because I don't know your languages.

相反,你们都觉得这句话听起来像,"啦啦啦",并未感觉得到任何的停顿,因为我并不懂你的语言

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Incidentally the U.S. did create what sounded like central banks.

顺便提一句,美国确实有过中央银行。

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Five hundred years ago, that wouldn't have sounded dark.

五百年前,这个听起来绝对不阴暗

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Gibberish, or so it sounded, or Greek but making no sense to anybody, and then the priest would listen to this stuff and he would say, what Apollo said through the priestess here is, and he would give the message.

就像是胡言乱语,也许听上去像是希腊语,但普通人无法明白,其他的祭司听完这些就解释,阿波罗想要通过这个女祭司说的话,接着他会给出具体内容

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So the language that different early Christians used about each other, and for themselves,was sometimes very common Greek language, but sometimes it would've also sounded strange and kind of in-house to other people.

所以早期基督教徒所使用的不同的,互称或自称的称谓，有些其实是普通的希腊语，但有时听起来很奇怪,对其他人来说像黑话。

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