下世纪中期，人口每年增长将向公元元年后的第一个1500年那个多。

By the middle of next century population will expand every year by as much as it did in the first 1500 years after Christ.

youdao

开采煤始于西汉文帝前元元年（公元前179年）左右；

Mining of coal came into being in 179 B. C.

youdao

Scholars of the Albright school pointed to texts and clay tablets that were discovered in second millennium sites. So you see down on the bottom the second millennium BCE, obviously going down to 1000; first millennium: 1000 to 0.

亚布莱特学院的学者们指的是,两千多年前的遗址中发现文件和泥板文献，你们看下面,公元前第二个千年，再显然的,往下到一千年；第一个千年是公元前1000年到公元元年。

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