这块古代排泄物或粪化石，同烧焦的多刺梨种子散落在一起，点缀着来自鱼、鸟、啮齿目动物的小块骨头。
The ancient fecal material, or coprolite, was littered with seared prickly pear seeds and flecked with small bones from fish, birds, and rodents.
现存的手稿，不论数量多么少，也不能让学者推断一部作品的古代拉丁手稿有多少存活到了九、十二，甚至是十五世纪。
The number of extant manuscripts, however few, really does not allow scholars to infer how many ancient Latin manuscripts of a work survived to the ninth, the twelfth, or even the fifteenth century.
俄罗斯和美国的宇宙飞船还发现了一些迹象，表明火星古代的气候可能更湿润、更凉爽，甚至可能更适合生命生存。
Russian and American spacecraft also found hints that its ancient climate might have been wetter, cooler, and possibly even friendly to life.
她居住的内陆国家是一片沙漠地，曾是古代撒哈拉商队路线的枢纽。
Her landlocked country is a desert land that was once a hub for ancient Saharan caravan routes.
根据古代雅典的记载，每年雅典的年轻妇女都要合作织成一件新的羊毛长袍，用来装饰雅典娜女神的雕像。
Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress a statue of the goddess Athena.
我想讲讲一个驯养马的古代文化。
I'd like to talk about an ancient culture that domesticated horses.
像埃及这样的古代文明面临的挑战之一是计时，也就是日历。
One of the challenges that faced ancient civilizations like Egypt was timekeeping, calendars.
维基词典指出，“无附加条件”这一说法的起源可以追溯到古代。
Wiktionary tells us that the origin of the expression "no strings attached" may date back to ancient times.
形成这些沉积物的河流实际上离一个叫做特提斯海的古代海洋不远。
The river that formed these deposits was actually not far from an ancient ocean known as the Tethys Sea.
无论如何，那次谈话让我想到了一些考古发现，它们确实改变了我们对古代文明的理解。
At any rates, that conversation got me thinking about archaeological finds that really changed our understanding of ancient civilizations.
分和秒是古代美索不达米亚使用的一种不常见的60进制数字系统的口头和书面表达。
Minutes and seconds are the verbal and written representations of an uncommon base-60 number system used in ancient Mesopotamia.
中国文学是中国古代传统的重要组成部分之一，而中国诗歌就像是这个著名文化的文学宝库中的最佳宝藏。
Chinese literature is one of the major parts of China's ancient traditions, and Chinese poetry is just like the best prize in this famous culture's literary treasure house.
尼罗河发源于非洲中部，向北流入地中海，流程达4100多英里，它的沿岸曾孕育了世界上最伟大的古代文明之一。
The Nile, which begins in central Africa and flows over 4,100 miles north into the Mediterranean, hosted one of the world's great ancient civilizations along its shores.
当然存在着一种伟大的艺术，而且它的存在揭示了古代人类并非没有智慧、技能和敏感性。
Certainly a great art exists, and its existence reveals that ancient human beings were not without intelligence, skill, and sensitivity.
它说，确定考古遗址中是否有古代壁炉的一种方法是检查土壤中的磷。
It said that one way to determine if there was an ancient fireplace at an archaeological site was to check the soil for phosphorus.
公元815年，袁真因工作失误，被派往中国古代一个贫穷偏僻的地方——通州。
In 815, Yuan Zhen did something wrong with his job, so he was sent to Tongzhou, which was a poor and remote place in ancient China.
瓦努阿图太平洋群岛埃法特岛上的一项重要考古发现揭示了古代航海民族的踪迹，即今天的波利尼西亚人的远祖。
An important archaeological discovery on the island of Efate in the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu has revealed traces of an ancient seafaring people, the distant ancestors of todays Polynesians.
1897年，夏威夷最后一位在位君主利留卡拉尼女王写道：“古代夏威夷人是天文学家。”
"The ancient Hawaiians were astronomers," wrote Queen Liliuokalani, Hawaii's last reigning monarch, in 1897.
今天，这条水路的一部分将会畅通无阻地经过壮丽的帝王谷，许多古代帝王的坟墓已经在这里矗立了3000多年。
A journey through the unobstructed- part of this waterway today would pass by the splendid Valley of the Kings, where the tombs of many of these ancient monarchs have stood for over 3,000 years.
所有这些发现似乎表明，它们是一个古代文明的遗迹，与当时其它更著名的文明一样先进。
All these findings seem to indicate that they are the remains of an ancient civilization that was every bit as advanced as other more famous civilizations of the time.
一项针对古代和现代大象的研究得出一个出人意料的结论：非洲大象已经分化成两个不同的物种。
A recent study of ancient and modern elephants has come up with the unexpected conclusion that the African elephant is divided into two distinct species.
古代玛雅人也许经验更丰富，做得更好，但他们也一定会面临干旱和飓风引起谷物歉收的风险。
The ancient Maya were presumably more experienced and did better, but nevertheless they too must have faced risks of crop failures from droughts and hurricanes.
一些古代人认为闰日是不吉利的。
一些古代人可能会告诉伴侣不要这样做。
Some ancient peoples would likely tell couples not to do it.
古代占星家认为宇宙由七颗行星统治；学过莎士比亚的人会记得，人的一生被分为七个时代。
The ancient astrologers believed that the universe was governed by seven planets; students of Shakespeare will recall that the life of man was divided into seven ages.
你可以说，安提基西拉装置是一种非常精确的日历，非常符合日历对古代民族很重要的道理。
You could say that the Antikythera Mechanism was a very precise calendar, which stands to reasons calendars were very important to ancient peoples.
古代中国人则用另一种方式。
在古代，曾经有一位非常聪明的人。
萨姆正在做一些关于古代丝绸之路的研究。
祖冲之是中国古代最伟大的数学家之一。
Zu Chongzhi was one of the greatest mathematicians in ancient China.
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