He told people the way to decipher an ancient text in the Book of Gramarye.

他告诉人们破译魔法书中的古老文本的方法。

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But if the Star of Bethlehem was a real event, these known conjunctions involving Jupiter are a strong — and fascinating — argument as to what it might have been recorded in ancient text.

但是如果伯利恒之星是真实的，那么对古老经典中的记录而言这些包括木星的已知合相是个强烈且迷人的争议。

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In other words, if you have a text that you're not clear about the interpretation of it, it's okay in ancient interpretation theory to go to another text that might shed light on that cloudy text.

换言之，如果你有一段，对其解读不明白的文字，在古代解读理论里，去找另一段，可能能阐明那段模糊文字的文字。

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It illustrates again this idea that how much of this ancient text is it important for you to know, on its own terms,in its historical context in the first century, or how is it important for you to know in the way it's been interpreted for the last 2000 years?

这又一次说明了,你对这部古代文本的了解，是对其本身100年间历史脉络的了解，还是在过去2000年间被解读的,哪个更为重要？

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She still treasures the moment when a piece of the past, an object of people's daily lives in ancient Athens, or a marker mentioned in an ancient text, is revealed and she's able to bring it back into the light.

BBC: Working Lives Athens

They then turned the pages upside down and wrote over the ancient text in jet-black ink.

FORBES: On The Block

Unidentified Announcer: Nowhere, in any ancient text, is there ever any claim that Jesus was married.

NPR: Religious Groups Respond to 'Da Vinci' Movie Release