In anatomic terminology, common Latin or Greek words are used as such for any part of the body for which the ancients had a name.

用解剖的专有名词，普通拉丁语或者希腊语单词被古人有一个名字的身体的任何部分照此使用。

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The sites distribution of the late Neolithic age illustrates that, the ancients had able to distinguish the soil quality and to use environment condition to improve the soil.

新石器晚期，古人已能分辨土壤的优劣并很可能会利用环境条件改善土壤的不良特性；

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It is only fitting that the story of the brain should be a visual one, for the visuals had the ancients fooled for millenniums.

毫无疑问，关于大脑的故事应该是可视化的，因为表象曾将古人愚弄了数千年。

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The ancients had a beautiful word or at least the Greeks had a beautiful word for this quest for this desire for knowledge of the best regime.

古人有一个美丽的字眼,至少希腊文有这么一个美丽的字眼,送给寻道者，追寻最优政体知识的欲望。

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The voyage showed only that contacts had been possible among the ancients across vast stretches of ocean, not that they had happened.

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

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