"The Greeks and Romans," said the old man, "called her a Dryad; but that we do not understand."

老人回答说：“罗马人和希腊人把她称为树仙，但我们不明白。”

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Yet there is a dark side to this picture: despite our progress, half of the world's population still suffers, with water services inferior to those available to the ancient Greeks and Romans.

然而，这种情况也有其黑暗的一面：尽管我们取得了进步，世界上仍有一半的人口在受苦，供水服务还不如古希腊和古罗马人。

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The Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and Romans all grabbed it.

亚述、波斯、希腊和罗马人都曾占有过这块土地。

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Ancient Egyptians and Romans also liked to have lettuce with their evening meal.

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Consider the following passage that he writes: "As to rebellion against monarchy, one of the most frequent causes is the reading of the books of policy and history of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

他曾写道：,反抗君主统治的叛乱，最主要的原因是,古希腊，罗马关于政治和历史的书籍,在民间的传播。

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That's what you learn, Hobbes believes, from the reading of Aristotle and the Greeks and Romans, regicide, that the only legitimate form of government is a republic and that it is a lawful and even it's your duty to kill your king.

唯一合法的政府应当是共和政体的政府，而且弑君在一定意义上也应当是合法的,甚至那还有可能是你应尽的义务,这就是那些年轻人从阅读亚里士多德,和古希腊罗马书籍中学到的东西。

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In ancient times, Greeks and Romans gave importance to banquets by inviting their guests to experience their thermal baths.

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Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans used music lavishly in elaborate ceremonies, and we know a lot about their instruments.

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The ancient Greeks and Romans understood this technique for creating the illusion of depth, but the skill was lost until Brunelleschi rediscovered it.

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