Boxing was always an important part of the ancient athletic repertoire.

拳击一直是古代竞技节目十分重要组成部分。

It's a compromise between ancient literary dialects.

它是几种古代文读音杂糅。这个观点学界仍有争论。

No. I see I'm beaten but, oh, how I sympathise with King Canute.

没事。我知道我得认输了，我可真同情卡纽特国王啊（古代北欧国王，自以为能下令控制潮汐）。

Many modern palaeontologists try to do something similar, except that what they reconstruct is behaviour.

许多现代古生物学家除了重现古代动物行为外，也在尝同样事情。

Japan is a truly timeless place where ancient traditions view seamlessly with modern life.

日本确是一个不受时间影响地方，古代传统影子在现代生活中随处可见。

Or so an ancient legend goes at least.

至少古代神话故事是这样讲述。

So they wrote about contemporary merchants and tradesmen instead of ancient nobles and gods.

所以他们笔下人物都是当代商人 而不是古代贵族和神。

The complex style of the medieval wooden church carvings and the skills used to make them almost certainly derive from the ancient Viking tradition.

几乎可以肯定地说，中世纪木制教堂雕刻复杂风格及雕刻技巧衍生于古代维京人传统。

And as we all know, the ancient architecture there is breathtaking.

我们都知道，那儿古代建筑令人惊叹不已。

The ancient oceans were steamed out of the interior by erupting volcanoes.

古代海洋是由火山喷发而形成。

China's ancient buildings had a special preference for symmetry.

中国古代建筑对对称有特殊偏好。

It was moved here by powerful ancient glaciers.

它被强大古代冰川移动到了这里。

It makes sense. That sounds like an ancient African rhyme!

终于懂了，听像古代非洲韵诗！

To show false art what beauty was of yore.

好使假匠人得识古代美人真身。

The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Philosopher's Stone, a legendary substance with astonishing powers.

古代炼金术涉及魔法石炼造，这是一种具有惊人功能神奇物质。

He had spent his youth traveling and learning about ancient civilizations before accompanying his brother Frederick on a diplomatic mission to the northwest Anatolian region of ? anakkale.

在陪同他兄弟Frederick前往安纳卡莱西北部地区执行外交任务之前，他花了整个青年时期时间，用在旅行和学习古代文明上。

AZUZ : Ten-second trivia: Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the oldest?

十秒钟智力竞猜：古代世界七大奇迹哪个是最古老？

The findings prove that ancient poop is flush ... with details about ancient civilizations.

研究结果证明，古代粪便中充满了古代文明细节。

Indigo dye was used around the ancient world in fabrics created from Egypt to China to Meso and South America.

靛蓝染料在古代用于对布料进行染色，而这些布料一般产自埃及、中国、中美洲以及南美洲等地方。

This actually dates back to ancient methods of trying to predict the weather.

这实际上可以追溯到古代图预测天气方法。