If you think about the modern food environment compared to the ancient one, so let's say somebody getting something at a fair compared to the old days.

如果将现在的饮食环境,与过去的相比,例如比较在现在和过去的人们,在集市上能买到哪些东西

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The epic also explains and mirrors the rise of Babel as one of the great cities in the Ancient Near East.

史诗也解释并且映射了巴比伦王国的兴起,它是古代近东繁盛的城市之一。

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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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There's ancient evidence, there's an ancient source for that, that says that's what happened and that's one of the things that we have to deal with.

这里有古老的证据,有一份古代的资料表明,事情就是这样发生的,这也是我们要处理的问题之一

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In many ways Aristotle there offers, as does Plato, a certain kind of critique of the modern or even the ancient democratic theory of freedom, which is living as one likes.

亚里士多德在很多方面所提出的和柏拉图相似，都是一种对现代,或甚至古代自由民主理论的评判，也就是过一个人想过的生活。

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Well, the conception of the universe that was widespread among ancient peoples is one that you're probably familiar with.

那就是，对宇宙的理解,一个古人很崇尚,大家也很熟悉的说法。

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It's looks like an ancient Greek novel, except it lacks the one thing every good Greek novel had,sex.

像是一部古希腊小说，只不过缺少了希腊小说普遍具有的“性“

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But Klawans also asserts, and I quote, that "Imitatio dei does not exhaustively explain sacrifice in ancient Israel," and in fact, we should be surprised if any one single theory would indeed explain sacrifice.

但是克洛文同时也宣称，“模仿并不能完全地解释股以色列的献祭，“,事实上，如果有某个独立的理论真的解释了献祭,我们会十分惊讶。

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So, which is it, which is part of the question that came from over here, You have on the one hand the claim that Israelite religion is essentially continuous with Ancient Near Eastern polytheism.

刚才那个男生问的是什么问题？,一方面，有人说以色列宗教从本质上,和古近东的多神论是一脉相承的。

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Consider the following passage that he writes: "As to rebellion against monarchy, one of the most frequent causes is the reading of the books of policy and history of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

他曾写道：,反抗君主统治的叛乱，最主要的原因是,古希腊，罗马关于政治和历史的书籍,在民间的传播。

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They also had a creation story. They had a flood story. They did animal sacrifices. They observed purity taboos. Israelite religion was another Ancient Near Eastern religion and they differed from their neighbors only over the number of gods they worshiped: one or many.

他们都有原创的神话，他们都有一个关于洪水的神话,都有动物牺牲，他们都尊崇高洁的竹子,以色列宗教是另一种古近东宗教，它们和别的宗教,唯一不同之处就在于崇拜的神的数量：一个还是多个。

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Solon was now a man of full years, he was a man greatly respected, and he turns out to be one of the seven sages that the ancient Greeks selected for the wisest men who ever were.

梭仑那时年岁已高并且备受崇敬,他最后被选为古希腊历史上,最具智慧的七个智者之一

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And so many scholars, and many people, have remarked that it's not a small irony that the Ancient Near Eastern people with one of the, or perhaps the most lasting legacy, was not a people that built and inhabited one of the great centers of Ancient Near Eastern civilization.

很多学者，很多人都说，拥有世界上最永恒遗产的,古代近东居民，并不是那些修建并居住于，古代近东文明中心的人,这是不是很讽刺呢。

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