It is about a bird named Francine who travels back in time to learn about her ancient relatives, the dinosaurs.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

Now, the concept of ritual impurity was a central and integral feature of most, if not all, ancient religions.

现在，仪式上的不洁已经是大部分宗教,主要的，整体而言的特点。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The martyrs in the Easter Rebellion of 1916 become ancient Irish warriors, and we'll talk about that next time.

916年复活节起义中的烈士6,化身为古代爱尔兰骑士，这个我们下次课再谈。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Three were plant-eaters. They were the western horse, the ancient bison and a two-meter tall animal called the Harlan's ground sloth.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

The worship practices of ancient Israel and Judah clearly resemble what we know of Canaanite and Ancient Near Eastern worship practices.

古代以色列和犹太崇拜仪式非常像,我们所知的迦南和古代近东的崇拜仪式。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

So when you see the word "book" in ancient Greek or Latin, they didn't think of this. They thought of scrolls.

当看到古希腊语或拉丁语的书这个字，他们不会想到这个，他们会想到书卷。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Five years ago, he used computed tomography to study the remains of Tutankamun, the famous boy ruler of ancient Egypt.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

So, for example, when you have the issue like Hebron Right? So there is a lot of religious tension there. Because ... it's an ancient side, or Jerusalem.

比如说,当你有希伯伦这个问题,就会有很多宗教的紧张局面，因为。,这和历史有关，或是关乎耶路撒冷。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Huge amounts of water ran into a low area in the dry, waterless desert that had once been an ancient lake.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Now the added sugar before, does anybody remember from the Eaton article how ancient humans added sugar to things?

在糖类出现以前,有谁还记得伊顿的一篇文章是谈论,祖先是如何在食品中添加糖类

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It has high mountains. It has valleys formed by ancient ice that cut deep into the Earth millions of years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

I better say something about oil in the ancient world, so that you get a grip on what's going on here.

我最好说一下油在古代世界的地位,以便你能明白为什么会出售芳香油

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Mister Bandelier saw the ruins of the ancient pueblo or village and said "This is the grandest thing I ever saw."

VOA: special.2010.07.05

This role," he says, "was taught covertly by ancient writers. It was taught covertly by ancient writers," he says in chapter 18.

他说，这个角色是古代的作家们,秘密授予的，是古代的作家们,秘密授予的，他在第十八章中说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She collected the work of the great ancient painters, but also worked hard to support modern artists beginning their careers.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

The only precedent Milton would have had even for the idea of line numbers would have been the great ancient classics, the magnificent Renaissance editions of Homer and Virgil.

弥尔顿曾经的唯一一个范例，甚至是印上行数的想法,都将是伟大的古老杰作，是荷马和维吉尔伟大的再生版。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

His father told him that their ancestors were the kings and queens of the Olmecs, Toltecs,Mayans,Aztecs and other ancient peoples.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

There are a variety of ways, in other words, in which this story, just like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, could end.

有很多种方式，换言之，在这个故事里，就像《古航海家之歌》一样，结局有很多种可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In ancient times,however, people believed that the swan was given a special gift of song at the end of its life.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

They participated at the very earliest stages in the wider religious and cultic culture of the Ancient Near East.

他们从最初就影响着,广泛古代近东地区的宗教信仰。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

His work covers over three hundred fifty square meters of ceiling in a room that contains treasures from ancient Greece.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

On the other hand, a Protestant distaste for priest-centered cultic ritual colors scholarly accounts of the temple, and its meaning for ancient Israelites.

一方面，新教徒不喜欢，以神职人员为中心的,狂热祭祀，就庙宇来说，也有不同的歪曲，以及对犹太人的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Since ancient times, thinkers including the Greek astronomer Ptolemy believed in the existence of a huge continent on the South Pole.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Legally, that's correct, but you see cases in letters and all kinds of stuff from the Ancient World that women actually were more unofficially part of their husband's house.

法律上是这样的，但是从古代书信,及其他各类文献中发现,女子更像是丈夫家中的非正式成员。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

For example,in his play "The Comedy of Errors" Shakespeare borrows certain structural details from the ancient Roman playwright Plautus.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

If you travel around in Greek cities throughout the Ancient Mediterranean, you can see where they've carved little game boards into flagstones of different temples or buildings, in Greek cities.

如果你周游古地中海地区的希腊城市，就会发现他们在各类神庙,或建筑的石板上，刻有小型游戏棋盘。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Under this layer of nanodiamonds, they found remains of many ancient animals, including those that disappeared after Younger Dryas.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

So Roman slavery and the freedom of that was actually one way that a few people in the Ancient World recognized some kind of social mobility, which was very rare in the Roman Empire.

所以罗马奴隶制以及奴隶释放制,被古代部分人认为是,某种社会阶级流动，在罗马帝国很少见。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So if that was the reason they were included in the ancient world,it's not the reason they're still in now, because modern scholars don't believe the apostles actually wrote all of these texts in the New Testament.

如果那就是它们在古代被选上的原因,它不是现代人所认为的原因，因为现代学者认为,新约里的书并非全为使徒所写。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选