Along the same lines, there was an ancient world equivalent of the hire-an-assistant-of-whom-your-spouse-can 't-be-jealous wisdom.

同样，还有一条古代智慧这样说“雇佣不会让配偶吃醋的助手”。

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But that wouldn't have been sort of a normal, everyday way to talk about a stranger in the ancient world.

但即便在古代，对陌生人这么称呼也不并不常见。

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You can't wander around any Greek city, or Roman city of the Ancient World, without seeing the latrine.

古代希腊城市，及罗马城市，都有公共厕所。

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But since life expectancy in the Ancient World was much less than ours, you didn't have usually several generations in these households, because older people just died.

但是古代人的寿命没我们长，一般不会出现几代同堂，因为年纪大了去世了。

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