Over five hundred years ago, a man designed a flying machine.

五百多年前一个人设计了一台飞行器。

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Thai boxing was created by soldiers over five hundred years ago.

泰国拳是五百多年前由军人创造的。

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Five hundred years ago, the humanist author Baldassare Castiglione labeled such studied nonchalance "sprezzatura, " from the verb meaning "to undervalue.

五百年前，人文主义作家巴尔达萨雷·卡斯蒂廖内（Baldassare Castiglione）根据意指“低估”的动词，为这种刻意为之的若无其事，创造了一个名词“云淡风轻”（sprezzatura）。

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It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

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Five hundred years ago, that wouldn't have sounded dark.

五百年前,这个听起来绝对不阴暗

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Most historians believe that Etruscan society reached its height more than two thousand five hundred years ago.

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Five hundred years ago, a caravel flying the colours of the King of Portugal rounded the curve of the continent.

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Two-thirds of the price was subsidized by the city, which estimates that it has replaced almost a hundred thousand coal stoves since the project began, five years ago, cutting down on sulfur and dust emissions.

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