All good stuff, but my favourite part was when he pointed out that the Greek word "borborygmos" has been excluded from the new Ancient Greek-English Lexicon being prepared in Cambridge.
所有好事情中，我最欣赏的是他指出希腊词“borborygmos”已经从剑桥正在编纂的古希腊-英语词典中被剔除了。
The republic's new flag was emblazoned with the ancient symbol of the Greek Macedonian dynasty.
这面共和国的新旗帜上纹有希腊马其顿王朝的古老标志。
Calm and peaceful for most of the year, the Nile used to flood annually, thereby creating, irrigating and carrying new topsoil to the nearby farmland on which ancient Egypt depended for livelihood.
尼罗河虽然在一年的大部分时间里平静而祥和，但是过去每年都会泛滥，从而生成、灌溉并把新的表层土搬运到附近的古埃及人赖以为生的农田。
Calm and peaceful for most of the year, the Nile used to flood annually, thereby creating, irrigating and carrying new topsoil to the nearby farmland, on which ancient Egypt depended for livelihood.
尼罗河在一年的大部分时间里平静而祥和，过去每年都会泛滥，从而创造，灌溉并把新的表土运到附近的农田，古埃及赖以生存。
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.
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。
The books are in every language—new books, ancient books, even a book on the history of Iraq that is seven hundred years old.
每一种语言的书籍都有——新书，古书，甚至还有一本关于伊拉克历史的书，这本书已经有700年了。
These days, children are robbed of these ancient freedoms, due to problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces and odd new perceptions about what is best for children.
如今，因为一些问题，儿童被剥夺了这些以往一直都有的自由。这些问题包括犯罪、交通、室外空间的丧失以及关于什么对孩子最好的荒谬新观点。
It means that the ancient Hermetists probably did not use a type of New Thought-like mind power in their practice.
这意味着古代的诠释者们在他们的实践中可能没有使用一种新的类似思想的心灵力量。
New research, however, shows that "circuits" for laughter exist in very ancient regions of the human brain.
而最新的研究结果则显示，笑的“循环线路”存在于人类大脑非常古老的区域中。
Archeologists have discovered a paint production studio in an ancient South African cave a new archaeological find may signify one of the great leaps in human cultural and cognitive history.
考古学家在南非的一个古老洞穴中发现了一个油漆制作工作室。这个新的考古发现可能是人类文化和认知历史的最伟大的跨越之一。
Secondly, they preserve the ancient part of city by building new buildings in the same architectual style and limiting the entry.
其次，他们通过建造新的同样建筑风格的建筑并限制进入而保护城市的古建筑部分。
Teeth from ancient human ancestors suggest that females joined new social groups once they reached maturity.
从远古人类祖先牙齿显示，女性们一到成年就加入新的社会群体。
If living hunter-gatherers are typical of ancient ones, the new data about their social pattern has considerable bearing on early human evolution.
如果现存的狩猎者-采集者还是像古代那样，那么这些关于他们社会模式的新数据对早期人类进化有重大意义。
New evidence appears to confirm that the ancient creatures were endothermic, or warm-blooded, like their modern descendants - birds.
最新证据证实，恐龙这种远古生物跟它的现代后裔鸟类一样，都是温血动物。
These "big bangs" in plant evolution occurred when the genomes of ancient plants duplicated, providing vast Numbers of new genes that could take on new functions and lead to new traits.
这种植物种群数量的“大爆炸”是在古代植物染色体组加倍时发生的。染色体组加倍给植物提供了大量具有新功能的基因，这些新基因又形成了新特性。
Life not only survives but thrives in Australian lakes where conditions may be as harsh as those on ancient Mars, a new DNA analysis suggests.
澳大利亚有些湖泊的生存环境跟古代的火星上的条件一样严酷，但是根据新的DNA显示，在这里不但有生命存活下来，而且生长的很繁盛。
The discovery of blocks of gravel which sank to the bottom of the sea trapped in ancient icebergs has sparked a new understanding of a bizarre group of creatures.
对牢嵌在古老冰川中的沉没海底的沙石块的发现引起了人们对奇异物种的新的认识。
Another structure has collapsed today in Pompeii, raising new fears about the fate the ancient Roman town buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79.
古代罗马城市曾在79年的维苏威火山大爆发被埋没。今天在庞贝古城另一个结构已经崩溃这令人们对这个城市的命运有了新担忧。
Two years after macabre new relics are discovered at the site of the ancient seaside town, National Geographic provides haunting photos and new details on the long-dead victims of Vesuvius.
自古老的海滨小镇发现罹难者遗骸两年后，国家地理发布了一系列触目惊心的照片和新细节。
What was true about New England was also true about ancient Athens, seventeenth-century Holland, eighteenth-century England, and nineteenth-century Canada.
新英格兰的实际就是古代雅典、17世纪荷兰、18实际英国、19世纪加拿大的实际。
2011 is merely a new entry in our ancient custom of chronological bookkeeping, an arbitrary starting point for our annual trip around the sun.
2011年不过是对编年体历史记载的古代风俗的新认识，一年一度绕着太阳旅行的必然起点。
The new science of geomythology sets out to tie such tales to ancient disasters.
新的神话地质（ Geomythology）科学把古代神话和自然灾害联系在一起。
In the old city there is an ancient bazaar close to the harbour - while a new port has been built to the left.
在老城区，靠近港口处有一个古集市——而在左侧已建成一个新的港口。
Underwater archaeologists have discovered 41 new seaside salt production works used by the ancient Mayans in Central America.
美国的水下考古学家日前又有了一项最新发现，他们在美洲中部发掘出41个古代玛雅人使用过的海边制盐作坊。
But over the past 10 years, new tools developed for exploring the human genome gave ancient DNA research a lifesaving infusion.
但过去十年间，探索人类基因组研发的新工具拯救了古生代dna的研究。
The next giant leap in human evolution may not come from new fields like genetic engineering or artificial intelligence, but rather from appreciating our ancient brains.
人类进化的下一次大飞跃可能源于开发亘古以来人类的大脑，而非类似基因工程或人工智能这样的新领域。
The new method may also help anthropologists understand more about the history and migration of ancient humans at sites where bits of hair are preserved.
这项新技术或许也能助益人类学家，通过分析遗址中毛发中留存着的信息，进一步了解古人类的历史和迁徙。
A new member of the human evolutionary family has been proposed for the first time based on an ancient genetic sequence, not fossil bones.
人类学家首次发现人类家族进化史上有另一个新成员存在，这个发现来源于对古代基因序列而不是骨化石的研究。
We don't know what caused this disaster. But the radical reassessment of its importance shows how ancient fossils remain a fertile field for new thinking.
我们不知道是什么引发了这次灾难。但对其重要性进行的彻底的重新评估表明，古生物化石可以成为新思维诞生的沃土。
We don't know what caused this disaster. But the radical reassessment of its importance shows how ancient fossils remain a fertile field for new thinking.
我们不知道是什么引发了这次灾难。但对其重要性进行的彻底的重新评估表明，古生物化石可以成为新思维诞生的沃土。
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