The University of North Carolina School of Medicine conducted a study that shows that by training local birth attendants in a method promoted by the World Health Organization, the number of still births was reduced by about 30 percent.
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But he had great birth, and so he started getting more power politically and financially by setting himself up as the patron of the patronless.
但是出身很好,于是他通过给人当庇护人,来提高自己的政治及金融地位。
That is, this kind of aristocratic outfit, aristocracy of birth, which is legitimized by heroic behavior on the battlefield.
也就是说,由于他们在战场上的英雄行为,他们的贵族的身份和贵族出身是被认可的
The painting is The Birth of Christ by Botticelli in the end of the 15th century.
这幅油画--《维纳斯的诞生》,是画家波特切利在15世纪作的。
Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Homer described the fate of the companions of Odysseus who were transformed by a witch into pigs.
在公元前几百年,荷马这样描述奥德赛的几个同伴的命运,一个女巫将他们变成了猪
All of these heroes are aristocrats in the traditional sense of the word; they arrive at their high standing in their community by virtue of birth.
而所有这些英雄们,从传统角度来说,都是贵族,他们在社会中得到了很高的名望,因为他们生而高贵
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