The passage is: Here there is a sort of question, call it historical, of which we are only glimpsing today, the conception, the formation, the gestation, the labor.

这段话是：,有一个问题吧，关于历史的，我们今天只粗略地看看，它的设想，构成，妊娠，和分娩。

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Ishtar Ishtar," the goddess Ishtar, "cried out like a woman in labor .

女神，像分娩时的妇女一样哭嚎着。

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But people died typically of either infectious diseases or they died during childbirth, or they might have died at old age which would have been 50 or so at that time.

那时的人要么死于传染病,要么在分娩的过程中死去,或者在他们大约五十岁左右的时候,死于衰老

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