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It was the center of their universe. And it was called the 'hydraulic city' because it had really remarkably massive arrays of barays, which are these giant water tanks and a series of canals and interconnected waterways that was really unparalleled in the ancient world in that part of the world."
VOA: standard.2010.04.05
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But that wouldn't have been sort of a normal, everyday way to talk about a stranger in the ancient world.
但即便在古代，对陌生人这么称呼也不并不常见。
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In the ancient world,actually,it would've sounded familiar, because there are other stories of other kinds of teachers who'd healed and exorcised demons and performed miracles.
然而在古代，则很耳熟，因为还有其他人，传授知识,治疗百姓，驱魔，创造奇迹的故事。
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They had been brought from Egypt. The first room in the Egyptian museum welcomes visitors to the world of the pharaohs who ruled ancient Egypt.
VOA: special.2010.02.03
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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
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In these detailed works, the ancient art of glass meets the modern world of technology.
VOA: special.2009.09.16
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The art of dream interpretation places a very important role in this story, And dream interpretation was a developed science, Particularly in Egypt, and the other parts of Mesopotamia, but the Egyptians were known in the ancient world as dream interpreters.
解梦术在这个故事中有非常重要的作用，解梦术当时是发达的科学，尤其在埃及和美索不达米亚其它地区，但是在埃及人在古代就是以解梦人而被人所知。
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Since ancient times, cultures around the world have been making and performing with puppets.
VOA: special.2009.09.23
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Would this have been permitted ? in any other city of the ancient world?
这种权利会被允许吗,在其它古代世界的城市中？
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So, what we're dealing here with is a situation where the ancient Greeks were very much into mathematics as a way of explaining the world and explaining music in particular And they thought these ratios were primary.
那么,我们现在要潜心琢磨,古希腊人热衷于,用数学来解释世界,尤其是音乐的这种情形,他们认为这些比例才是基础
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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。
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When a slave is freed--and in the Ancient World, in the Roman Empire, most slaves were eventually freed, - unless they just died before long-- they became a freed man.
当一名奴隶被释放。。。在古罗马帝国，几乎所有奴隶最终都会被释放，除非他们很早就去世-,成为脱离奴隶身份的人。
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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。
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Sanctuaries in the ancient world were understood to be the dwelling place of the deity.
在古时候，圣所被认为是,神的住所。
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The first point worth noting about this, is that Aristotle did not simply assume slavery was natural, because it was practiced virtually everywhere in the ancient world.
第一点值得注意的是，亚里士多德并未,简单纯地假设奴役是自然的，只因奴役在古代的世界,四处可见。
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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。
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But those basic structures are part of any kind of Greek city in the Ancient World.
这些基本结构,是古代希腊城市一部分。
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For example, as in the rest of the ancient world, slavery existed in Israel. It did. Even so, and this is not to apologize for it, there is a tendency toward humanitarianism in the laws concerning slavery.
例如，就像远古世界的其它地方一样，奴隶制也存在于,以色列，即使这样，也不必为此感到抱歉，在有关,奴隶制的法律里都有一种人道主义倾向。
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But for the Greeks, as I think for quite a few other people in the ancient world, death was nothing in the worst sense of the word.
而对希腊人而言,我认为同时对很多其他的,古代人而言皆亦然,死亡是最恐怖的
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This is actually part of propaganda culture of the Ancient World.
这其实也是古代的宣传文化之一。
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Well, like the rest of the ancient world, Israel had a cultic system, and that cultic system featured a sanctuary: a sacred space with holy objects; sacred objects, where priests performed a variety of ritual acts.
和其他古代世界一样，以色列有一个宗教系统，圣所是这个系统的一个特色：,它是一个布满了神圣物体的地方，祭司会在这里举行一系列的仪式。
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But if we look at the society that emerges, this Dark Age society that emerges from the ancient world of Mycenae, what you have is a rare human experience.
如果我们仔细观察这渐渐浮出水面的社会,这个从古代迈锡尼文明浮现出来的,黑暗时代的社会,你会得到一些相当宝贵的经验
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And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.
在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。
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Remember,there's no printing press in the ancient world.
要记得古代是没有印刷机的。
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If wealth were the purpose of politics Aristotle writes the Phoenicians you might say in the ancient world -the Phoenicians were the commercial people par excellence the Phoenicians would be the best regime.
后者是著名《富国论》的作者,亚里士多德写到,如果财富是政治的目的,则你可以说，腓尼基人,远古世界最优秀的商人,腓尼基人治理的是最佳政体。
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in fact I want to use the word stitched together, because in the Ancient Greek world the people who sang, recited, created the poems of the Homeric epics were called rhapsodes, and that means stitchers of songs.
事实上,我想使用"串联"这个词,因为在古希腊,那些歌唱,朗诵,和创作《荷马史诗》的人,被称为吟诵者,就是说把诗歌串联在一起传唱
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You can't wander around any Greek city, or Roman city of the Ancient World, without seeing the latrine.
古代希腊城市，及罗马城市，都有公共厕所。
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But since life expectancy in the Ancient World was much less than ours, you didn't have usually several generations in these households, because older people just died.
但是古代人的寿命没我们长，一般不会出现几代同堂，因为年纪大了去世了。
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And I have to tell you something about novels in the ancient world.
我得跟大家说说,古代的小说是什么样的。
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But,notice, that would look kind of familiar to you in the Ancient World.
不过注意，在古代你可能觉得熟悉。
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