Earlier, the Babylonians had attempted to map the world, but they presented it in the form of a flattened disc rather than a sphere, which was the form adopted by Ptolemy.

在这以前更早的时候，巴比伦人曾经企图绘制世界地图，但是巴比伦人绘制成一个扁平的圆盘形，而不是绘制像托勒密所绘制的球形。

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They depict4 the world as a flat disc, which shows that the Babylonians thought the earth was flat.

他们将世界描绘成一个平面的圆盘，这也显示出巴比伦人认为地球是平的。

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Of coarse we changed the world, but try and follow through, get off your gold disc and fly!

我们确实改变了世界，但是试着坚持到底吧，从你的金唱片上下来吧！

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