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,對于我們多數(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，是因為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。

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，對陌生人這么稱呼也不并不常見。
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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，因為還有其他人，傳授知識,治療百姓，驅(qū)魔，創(chuàng)造奇跡的故事。
耶魯公開課 - 新約課程節(jié)選

Few of the most creative societies of the ancient world, after all, were free.
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