ancient world

基本解釋

Would this have been permitted ? in any other city of the ancient world?
這種權(quán)利會(huì)被允許嗎,在其它古代世界的城市中？
In other words,you've noticed,perhaps, that one of the things I stress in my lectures is how odd the ancient world is, even how odd early Christianity is from what most of us tend to come at it.
換言之，你們可能已經(jīng)注意到，我在講座中強(qiáng)調(diào)的一件事,是古代世界是非常奇怪的，早期基督教也是很奇怪的,對(duì)於我們多數(shù)人的想法來說。
Egypt‘s very soil was born in the Nile’s annual flood； with the flood came the life-giving mud that made Egypt the granary of the ancient world.
萬物之所以能生長(zhǎng)，是因爲(wèi)埃及的土地是尼羅河每年泛濫帶來的泥沙而形成的。埃及就這樣成了古代世界的糧倉(cāng)。

Says that in the ancient world, Angkor was known for its sophisticated water system.
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，對(duì)陌生人這麼稱呼也不竝不常見。
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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，則很耳熟，因爲(wèi)還有其他人，傳授知識(shí),治療百姓，敺魔，創(chuàng)造奇跡的故事。
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Few of the most creative societies of the ancient world, after all, were free.
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