基督的诞生是世界历史一个重要时代的开始。

The birth of Christ was the beginning of a major epoch of world history.

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在这艘小小的棕色拖船里，我们可以看到新工业时代的开始。

In the little, brown tugboat, we can see the new industrial era starting.

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二十世纪初标志着一个时代的开始与终结。

The early twentieth century marked an era of beginnings and endings.

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Some of the sites that are said to be destroyed by Joshua and the Israelites weren't even occupied in this period, ; the late Bronze Age, beginning of the Iron Age; the Iron Age begins around 1200.

据说一些遗址已被破坏,被约书亚，以色列在那时还未被攻占，在铜器时代晚期，铁器时代的初始;,接触器时代自1200年左右开始。

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By the time we get to Woolf in the early part of the twentieth century, Milton has come to be associated with essentially all of these ways of thinking about power, however contradictory they are.

到了20世纪早期伍尔夫的那个时代，人们开始将弥尔顿与所有思考力量,的方式相联系，不管这些方式是多么互相矛盾。

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It's the time in which but it's the time in which long distance commerce began to take hold, because of transportation revolutions: canals, roads, railroads in particular.

它是一个时期,这是一个远距离商业开始产生影响的时代,主要原因便是运输方式的革新,运河,公路,特别是铁路

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