在远古世界较成熟的社会中，宇宙的种种奥秘被认为就是众神存在的证据。

To the more sophisticated societies of the ancient world, cosmological mystery was proof that there were many gods.

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在东南亚婆罗洲的丛林里，科学家发现源自远古世界的体型最小的蛙类在捕虫草里栖息繁衍。

Scientists have discovered the Old World's smallest species of frog living inside pitcher plants in the jungles of Southeast Asia's Borneo.

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但是，在远古世界，关于梦的直觉的知识是——梦的更深层的意义是让我们觉察到我们自己内心深处。

But the basic intuition of the ancient world is that dreams can awaken us to a deeper sense of ourselves.

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For example, as in the rest of the ancient world, slavery existed in Israel. It did. Even so, and this is not to apologize for it, there is a tendency toward humanitarianism in the laws concerning slavery.

例如，就像远古世界的其它地方一样，奴隶制也存在于,以色列，即使这样，也不必为此感到抱歉，在有关,奴隶制的法律里都有一种人道主义倾向。

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If wealth were the purpose of politics Aristotle writes the Phoenicians you might say in the ancient world -the Phoenicians were the commercial people par excellence the Phoenicians would be the best regime.

后者是著名《富国论》的作者,亚里士多德写到,如果财富是政治的目的,则你可以说，腓尼基人,远古世界最优秀的商人,腓尼基人治理的是最佳政体。

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