The ancients conceived the earth as afloat in water.

古人认为地球漂浮在水里。

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Despite their reverence, the ancients were quick to recognize gold's practical qualities, particularly its malleability, which made it ideal for jewelry.

尽管受到尊敬，但古人很快就认识到黄金的实用性，尤其是它的延展性，这使它成为制作珠宝的理想材料。

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Some scholars, therefore, argue that the continent must have been discovered and mapped by the ancients, whose maps are known to have served as models for the European cartographers.

因此，一些学者认为，欧洲大陆一定是由古人发现并绘制的，古人绘制的地图被认为是欧洲制图者的模型。

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In other words, liberty for the ancients was a collective good, the liberty, as he says, to resist or invade other people.

也就是说，古人的自由是集体的自由,是他们这个集体拥有抵抗和入侵他人的自由，而非每个个体。

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For the ancients, liberty meant living in a self-governing republic, living in a republic in which everyone again took some share in the ruling offices.

古人认为自由即意味着,生活在一个拥有自治权的共和国里，一个人人都有机会,治理国家的地方。

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That's not what the ancients believed.

古代人并不这么认为。

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In fevered times, the ancients felt the gods had to be propitiated with human sacrifices.

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