Is it a) Cleopatra, b) Ptolemy, or c) Ramesses?

是 A. 克莉奥帕特拉，B.托勒密，还是 C. 拉美西斯？

I've got about five hundred, but I haven't got Agrippa or Ptolemy.”

不多攒了五百张了，就是缺阿格丽芭托勒米。”

Following Alexander's death, Ptolemy the 1st initiated the age of Hellenistic Egypt.

亚历山大死后，托勒密一世开启了希腊化的埃及时代。

But going back to ancient Greeks, like Ptolemy, people figured out this pretty neat connection.

但是追溯到古希腊人，比如托勒密人，人们发现了这种非常巧妙的联系。

" What? " " Oh, of course, you wouldn't know, Chocolate Frogs have cards, inside them, you know, to collect famous witches and wizards . I've got about five hundred, but I haven't got Agrippa or Ptolemy."

“什么? ”“哦，你当然不会知道，巧克力蛙里都附有画片，你知道，可以收集起来，都是些有名气的男女巫，不多攒了五百张了，就是缺阿格丽芭波托勒米。”

So Copernicus's revolutionary ideas about planetary motion, for example, were sparked by a new commentary on Ptolemy published in 1496, which the young astronomer read when he was 23 years old.

例如，哥于行星运动的革命性想法，最初是受到 1496 年发表的一篇于托勒密的新评论的启发，而那时这位年轻的天文学家 23 岁。

The medieval Mappa Mundi in England's Hereford cathedral, for example, is little more than drawings on vellum, or stretched calfskin, and it lacks Ptolemy's geometric method.

比如，中世纪制作的英格兰赫里福德教堂世界地图不过是些绘在羔皮、或者说拉伸了的犊皮上的图案，没有使用托勒密的几何方法。

For a long time, from Ptolemy to the age of Copernicus, it was widely believed and accepted that planets revolved in a perfectly circular path.

在很长一段时间里，从托勒密到哥时代，人们普遍相信并接受行星以完美的圆形轨道运行。

The priests were critical in keeping the hearts and minds of the Egyptian masses on side for Ptolemy, and the Rosetta Stone was their reward.

祭司在确保埃及民众全身心地拥护托勒密的统治方面发挥着重大作用，罗塞塔石碑上雕刻的承诺便是对他们的回报。

His methods were sound, and they were used later by great thinkers like Hipparchus and Ptolemy to get more accurate sizes and distances.

他的方法是可靠的，后来伟大的思想家如希帕库斯托勒密使用这些方法测出了更精确的尺寸距离。

Ptolemy was an Egyptian astronomer, mathematician and geographer born around 100 A.D., but his name has not been used for any NASA missions.

托勒密是埃及天文学家、数学家地理学家，出生于公元100年左右，他的名字还未曾用于美国国家航空航天局任务的命名。

Yeah. - That gave me the opportunity to take my time and let Ptolemy breathe into people's lives visually watching it.

是的。- 这让有机会慢慢来，大家通过视觉观看，让托勒密的气息进入了人们的生活。

When the Romans conquered Egypt from Ptolemy's descendants (Cleopatra and co), they too initially kept the existing religious infrastructure intact.

罗马人从托勒密的后代（克利奥帕特拉等人）手中征服埃及时，最初也保持了原有的宗教体系不变。

When Cleopatra was just four years old, the citizens of Alexandria rioted and chased Ptolemy out of Egypt.

当克利奥帕特拉只有四岁时，亚历山大的市民发动暴动，将托勒密赶出埃及。

Still, Ptolemy's idea of a geocentric Universe stuck around for well over a thousand years.

然而托勒密的地心宇宙模型仍然维持了一千多年。

Ptolemy's “Geography” was an attempt to take myths out of maps.

托勒密的这部《地理学》试图揭开地图的神秘面纱。

The country was rued by a dynasty of pharaohs, each with the name of Ptolemy, who had arrived from Macedonia in 323 BCE.

这个国家被一个法老王朝所统治，历代法老都是托勒密性，首位托勒密于公元前 323 年从马其顿来到埃及。

When Ptolemy V's father died suddenly, leaving the boy as king, the dynasty and its control of Egypt looked fragile.

而当托勒密四世骤然去世，年幼的男孩成为国王，他们的王朝与对埃及的管理开始显得脆弱不堪。

But everybody was stuck. A brilliant English physicist and polymath, Thomas Young, correctly worked out that a group of hieroglyphs repeated several times on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name-that of Ptolemy.

但没人取得任何进展。直到一位聪颖博学的英国学者托马斯杨发现，一组在石碑上反复出现的象形文字代表了一个王室姓氏的发音—托勒密。

Is it: a) Cleopatra, b) Ptolemy, or c) Ramesses?

是a) 克利奥帕特拉（埃及艳后），b) 托勒密，还是 c) 拉美西斯？