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The epic also explains and mirrors the rise of Babel as one of the great cities in the Ancient Near East.
史诗也解释并且映射了巴比伦王国的兴起,它是古代近东繁盛的城市之一。
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It's really great, right up to sort of the 20th century, but not so much that, mostly ancient.
这真的很好，一直到20世纪，但是很少现代的的，大部分都是古代的。
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They participated at the very earliest stages in the wider religious and cultic culture of the Ancient Near East.
他们从最初就影响着,广泛古代近东地区的宗教信仰。
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Hardy wants to use really old dialect words, when he can, and there's power in that. And this is a poem composed in 1915.
哈迪在他可以的时候总是想使用真正的古代方言，而在其中是有力量的，这是一首在1915年作的诗。
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There's ancient evidence, there's an ancient source for that, that says that's what happened and that's one of the things that we have to deal with.
这里有古老的证据,有一份古代的资料表明,事情就是这样发生的,这也是我们要处理的问题之一
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Let's talk about more ancient societies and how food got started and what sort of phases we've gone through and how does that shape what's going on today.
让我们更深入地讨论古代社会及食品起源,还有我们经历了哪些阶段,这些阶段是如何影响我们现在的饮食
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So, you might say, banks existed in ancient times.
所以可以说,古代就有银行了
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That was a story that surely was near and dear to the hearts of Many ancient Israelites and Ancient Near Eastern listeners, so all the elements are there for the retelling of that story.
这个故事必然对一些人来说亲近又珍贵,对那些古代以色列和近东的听众，那就具备了复述故事的一切要素。
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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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He expressed his will that there be light, and there was light And that's very different from many Ancient Near Eastern cosmogonies in which there's always a sexual principal at work in creation.
他表达意愿希望有光，于是便有了光,这与古代近东的宇庙学解释有很大出入,在其中，创世过程中有性的因素。
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It can be argued that the Ancient Near Eastern people with the most lasting legacy is a people that had an idea.
应该说，真正拥有持久遗赠的,古代近东人，是有新观点的人。
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You can't wander around any Greek city, or Roman city of the Ancient World, without seeing the latrine.
古代希腊城市，及罗马城市，都有公共厕所。
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But since life expectancy in the Ancient World was much less than ours, you didn't have usually several generations in these households, because older people just died.
但是古代人的寿命没我们长，一般不会出现几代同堂，因为年纪大了去世了。
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This by the way is the portrait of the world; It looks a lot like my map of the Ancient Near East, but it's not.
这也就是世界的图景;,就像我画的古代近东的地图，但它不是那样的。
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Archaeologists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were stunned to find the ruins and the records of remarkable peoples and cultures--massive, complex empires in some cases, but some of which had completely disappeared from human memory.
十九和二十世纪的考古学家们,震惊地发现了,古代伟大名族和文化的遗迹，有些还是大规模，复杂的帝国遗迹,但也有一些就完全从人类记忆中消失了。
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And that breaks with other ancient conceptions of the human.
这与古代其他人类的概念都不同。
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And I have to tell you something about novels in the ancient world.
我得跟大家说说,古代的小说是什么样的。
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But,notice, that would look kind of familiar to you in the Ancient World.
不过注意，在古代你可能觉得熟悉。
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So it would sound familiar to you in the ancient world.
这在古代你会觉得很熟悉。
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This is not the way it was in the ancient Near East.
这并不像古代近东
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It illustrates again this idea that how much of this ancient text is it important for you to know, on its own terms,in its historical context in the first century, or how is it important for you to know in the way it's been interpreted for the last 2000 years?
这又一次说明了,你对这部古代文本的了解，是对其本身100年间历史脉络的了解，还是在过去2000年间被解读的,哪个更为重要？
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No. And the reason was in the northern part of Italy, there were Etruscans, another powerful ancient people who control their own area and were not about to have anybody colonizing their territory.
没有,因为意大利北部,居住着伊特鲁里亚人,另一个古代强大的民族,他们控制自己的疆域,并且不允许任何殖民者侵略他们的领土
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Was it the world in which tradition says Homer himself lived, the transition first to the Archaic and then to the Classical Period, the period in which we think about the dawn of the polis?
或是那个传说中荷马曾经生活的时代吗,那个时代先经历了古代的转变,而后到了古典主义时期,也就是我们所说的城邦萌芽的时期
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Although I don't quite understand--I should say, there's many things about how the fighting went on which we can only attempt to imagine because we just don't have films of ancient hoplite battles, I'm sorry to say.
虽然我有时也很困惑,比如说,战场上瞬息万变,情况非常复杂,由于没有古代重步兵白刃战的影像资料,我们只能猜想战场上发生了什么,真的是很遗憾
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If you think about what ancient food gathering habits used to be like, you see things like this where people are out gathering food that is growing naturally, and you can think about what would-- what sort of conditions this would create and what kind of hardships it would create.
如果你想知道古代食物采集的习惯,请看这张图,人类都在野外采集自然生长的食物,你可以设想到,条件有多恶劣,生存有多艰难
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Why does he go against the traditional Ancient Near Eastern practice of primogeniture, inheritance by the first born?
为什么他要违背传统古代近东的惯例,也就是长子继承制，由第一个儿子继承？
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