对巴比伦的这种看似不合时宜的引用，重现了《韦德纳编年史》中的文本。

This seemingly anachronous reference to Babylon reproduces text from the Weidner Chronicle.

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巴比伦的新年庆祝持续11天。

The Babylonian New Year celebration lasted for eleven days.

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这就意味着，巴比伦的星座不是太阳当前经过的了。

That means that the constellations that made up the Babylonian zodiac are not the constellations the sun currently passes through.

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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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There are also texts that are going to object to alliances with any foreign king, or subservience to any foreign king, whether it's Egypt or Assyria or Babylonia.

也有的文本会反对,结盟，或者附属于任何外国的君主,无论是埃及，亚述，还是巴比伦的国王。

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All right, this is actually a very old piece of imperative knowledge for computing square roots, it's attributed to Heron of Alexandria, although I believe that the Babylonians are suspected of knowing it beforehand.

好，这是一个很古老的,关于计算平方根的程序性知识，是亚历山大的海伦提出的，不过我怀疑在那之前,巴比伦人就已经猜想过了。

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