ancient world

基本解释

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？
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.
换言之，你们可能已经注意到，我在讲座中强调的一件事,是古代世界是非常奇怪的，早期基督教也是很奇怪的,对于我们多数人的想法来说。
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.
万物之所以能生长，是因为埃及的土地是尼罗河每年泛滥带来的泥沙而形成的。埃及就这样成了古代世界的粮仓。

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