Playing it in snow was also a favorite pastime for ancient artists, who believed the instrument was the purest of its kind in the world.
在雪中弹奏它也是古代艺术家最喜欢的消遣方式，他们认为这种乐器是世界上最纯净的乐器。
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.
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。
In Ancient Arabia, a chorus of women would ululate on the battlefield.
在古阿拉伯半岛，妇女合唱队会在战场上嚎叫。
There are many museums, where you can learn how the ancient American Indians founded the Inca Empire and built Machu Picchu, a famous ancient city in the Andes Mountains.
那里有很多博物馆，在那里你可以了解到古老的美洲印第安人是如何创建印加帝国和马丘比丘的，马丘比丘是安第斯山脉中一座著名的古城。
Ancient artists enjoyed performing by a stream in the mountains.
古代的艺术家喜欢在山里的小溪边表演。
Chopsticks are highly praised by Westerners as a hallmark of ancient oriental civilization.
筷子被西方人高度赞扬为古代东方文明的标志。
This week, the resident exhibition is a display of ancient wall paintings on loan from Australia.
本周的常驻展览展示的是从澳大利亚借调的古代壁画。
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.
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。
Incredibly, in January 2001, this ancient structure survived a devastating earthquake that measured 7.
令人难以置信的是，在2001年1月，这座古老的建筑在一次毁灭性的里氏7级地震中幸存下来。
There is one stubborn question for which archaeology has yet to provide any answers: how did the Lapita accomplish the ancient equivalent of a moon landing, many times over?
有一个考古学家还没有给出任何答案的棘手问题：拉皮塔人是如何在远古时代完成相当于现今多次登月一样的任务？
Central African tribes and ancient Egyptians described and depicted a bizarre creature for centuries, colloquially dubbed the "African unicorn" by Europeans.
几个世纪以来中非部落和古埃及一直在描述一种奇怪的生物，欧洲人把它通俗地称为“非洲独角兽”。
Her landlocked country is a desert land that was once a hub for ancient Saharan caravan routes.
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。
Chopsticks, invented by ancient Chinese people, are a kind of tableware with distinct national features.
筷子是中国古人发明的一种具有鲜明民族特色的进食工具。
I better say something about oil in the ancient world, so that you get a grip on what's going on here.
我最好讲讲古代的石油，这样你们就能了解这里发生了什么。
Xia Da has created a medieval town full of elf princesses and knights, and a quiet ancient town with innocent children and mysterious legends.
夏达的笔下有满是精灵公主和武士的中世纪小镇，一个有着追逐梦想的年轻学生的繁忙现代城市，一个有着天真孩子和神秘传说的安静古镇。
The mathematics of ancient Egypt were based on a decimal system.
古埃及数学以十进制为基础。
They paused, where an ancient gaoler sat fingering a bunch of mighty keys.
他们停了下来，一个年老的狱卒坐在那儿，手里摆弄着一串很大的钥匙。
Spain has lovely white towns and the scent of oranges, but it is also a treasury of ancient remains including the cities left by the Greeks, Romans and Arabs.
西班牙有可爱的白色小镇和橘子的香味，但它也是古代遗迹的宝库，包括希腊人、罗马人和阿拉伯人留下的城市。
I believe that a modern reader cannot know the associations that a line of ancient oman poetry or prose had for any particular educated sixteenth-century reader.
我相信一个现代的读者不可能知道一行古阿曼诗歌或散文与任何一个受过教育的16世纪读者之间的关联。
The closest thing to watching a film during ancient times was going to see a shadow play.
在古代，和看电影最接近的事情就是看皮影戏。
As a result of human activity, such enemies reach even the remotest corners of the world, threatening to make the ancient giants a thing of the past.
由于人类的活动，这些敌人甚至到达了世界上最偏远的角落，威胁要使古代巨人成为历史。
Motherlove is a repeated subject in Chinese ancient poems, like "Song of the Parting Son" by Meng Jiao, a poet of the Tang dynasty.
母爱是中国古代诗歌中反复出现的主题，如唐代诗人孟郊的《游子吟》。
In ancient times, there was a king who loved flowers.
古时候，有一个喜欢花的国王。
Now the ancient Romans had a thriving spice trade and they sent their ships to the east and back.
现在古罗马人有繁荣的香料贸易，他们派船往返东方。
It might be darkness. It might be spirit. Or in ancient Greek religion, a more sort of philosophical polytheism, it might be fate.
可能是黑暗。可能是幽灵。或者在古希腊宗教中，一种哲学上的多神论，它可能是命运。
This was a historic leap that even surpassed the humanitarianism of ancient Greece, which was a pioneering idea at the time.
这是一个历史性的飞跃，甚至超越了古希腊的人道主义，这在当时是一种先锋思想。
They live in a wide world, from east to west, ancient to present, but their hearts beat in a narrow desert, closed tight, unable to communicate.
他们生活在一个广阔的世界里，从东到西，从古到今，但他们的心却在一片狭窄的沙漠里跳动，紧闭着，无法交流。
It is but a crazy, ancient door—I will batter it down myself betwixt midnight and the morning.
这不过是一扇又破烂又老旧的门——我要在半夜后黎明前把它砸开。
It is but a crazy, ancient door—I will batter it down myself betwixt midnight and the morning.
这不过是一扇又破烂又老旧的门——我要在半夜后黎明前把它砸开。
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