In this densely forested country, wood was the most important building material up to the premodern age.

在这个密林遍布的国家，在近代以前，木材是最重要的建筑材料。

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Human waste was problematic in premodern societies - but at least it was organic, and had its USES: it became fertiliser.

人类粪便在前现代社会的确令人棘手——但至少它是有机物，有一定用途：可成为肥料。

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Not knowing about the Internet makes me feel so premodern.

不懂因特网让我感觉很落伍。

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In its original imagining, though, the premodern vampire differed from today's in one crucial respect: His condition wasn't contagious.

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From a growing evidence base of mummies, researchers are now concluding that atherosclerosis may have been common in people who lived in premodern times.

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The premodern tale tellers might also be thought of as descendants of the scops of the Anglo-Saxon Dark Ages or of the griots of West Africa, men whose job it was to carry stories.

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