中国古代的风筝被设计成鸟的形状。
Chinese kites in ancient times were designed in the shape of birds.
孔子被认为是古代中国最伟大的圣人。
Confucius is considered the greatest of the ancient Chinese sages.
古代的艺术家喜欢在山里的小溪边表演。
Ancient artists enjoyed performing by a stream in the mountains.
在古代，和看电影最接近的事情就是看皮影戏。
The closest thing to watching a film during ancient times was going to see a shadow play.
相反，索皮奥斯说，古代的智慧促使我们行善。
这批藏品浩如烟海，从绘画和卷轴到古代瓷器和雕像都有。
So voluminous is this collection, which ranges from paintings and scrolls to ancient porcelain and statues.
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》。
Motherlove is a repeated subject in Chinese ancient poems, like "Song of the Parting Son" by Meng Jiao, a poet of the Tang dynasty.
饺子的形状像中国古代的金元宝，因此人们吃饺子以此来希望财富到来。
The shape of jiaozi is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure.
复活节岛（当地人称之为拉普努伊岛）是数百座古代人类雕像——摩艾石像的故乡。
Easter Island, or Rapu Nui as it is known locally, is home to several hundred ancient human statues—the moai.
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.
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.
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.
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。
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
霍勒斯在他的书信中问道：“如果希腊人也像我们这样鄙视新奇事物，那么古代的作品现在还会存在吗？”
"Had the Greeks held novelty in such disdain as we," asked Horace in his epistle, "what work of ancient date would now exist?"
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.
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.
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.
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.
中国人在古代就开始制作虎头鞋了。
Chinese people began making tiger-head shoes in ancient times.
你还记得中国古代著名诗人屈原吗？
Do you still remember Qu Yuan, a famous poet in ancient China?
在中国古代，这一天也被称为上巳节。
In ancient China, this day was also known as Shangsi Festival.
在中国古代，扇子是美丽和学识的象征。
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.
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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