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。

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Paper money is an ancient technology and an inconvenient means of payment.

纸钞是一种古老的技术，也是一种麻烦的的支付手段。

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Nevertheless, she used markedly Western means to repackage the ancient master for modern readers.

不过，她显然是运用到了西方的方式为当代读者解读这位古老的学者。

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It's by no means clear that The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner will end with "Love all things, great and small things."

大家不可能清楚的预见到《古航海家之歌》,会以“爱所有事物，不管它伟大或渺小“结尾“

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The 12.6% pay rise had been calculated as part of an ancient pay structure, which means the Lord Chancellor always receives an annual salary higher than the Lord Chief Justice.

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An ancient system of water rights means that many farmers pay only modest amounts to obtain their annual allocations from the Rio Grande, and poor pipelines and irrigation systems allow lots of water to leak out.

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Snyder wants to make the slaughter less ideological and technological than it has seemed, and more geographic and territorial: a question not so much of evil ideas carried out by industrial means as of ancient hatreds brought to life by modern monsters in ancient terrain.

NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces