The notion that education peaked around the time of the complainer's own graduation, and has gone down ever since, is an ancient one.

抱怨的人总是认为教育质量在自己毕业的时期达到巅峰而后盛极而衰，这古已有之。

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China is one of the birthlands of ancient civilization.

中国是古代文明的发源地之一。

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He was one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Indian culture.

他是世界上最优秀的古印度文化学者之一。

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Mister Riordan says there was only one subject that amazed his students more than ancient Greece and that was ancient Egypt.

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If you think about the modern food environment compared to the ancient one, so let's say somebody getting something at a fair compared to the old days.

如果将现在的饮食环境,与过去的相比,例如比较在现在和过去的人们,在集市上能买到哪些东西

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The epic also explains and mirrors the rise of Babel as one of the great cities in the Ancient Near East.

史诗也解释并且映射了巴比伦王国的兴起,它是古代近东繁盛的城市之一。

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K1 is a haplogroup that branched off a more ancient one about 35, 000 years ago.

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