In fact, they've been around since Babylonian times, around 4,000 years ago.

事实上，它们从约4000年前的巴比时代就已经存在了。

Imagine sitting down for dinner in ancient Babylon.

想象下在古巴比共进晚餐的情景。

And the early known New Year's resolutions were made by the ancient Babylonians.

最早为人所知的新年愿望是古巴比人提出的。

The blasts went off near the Babylon and Ishtar hotels, both have recently been renovated.

爆炸都是在即将午夜之时发生的。爆炸发生在最近都刚装修过的巴比和伊师塔酒店附近。

It was as large and as splendid as any built by the Egyptians or the Babylonians.

它跟埃及人和巴比人建造的那些神巨大和辉煌。

This animation is claimed to be the closest representation yet of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

据说这个短片是迄今为止最近巴比空中花园的。

Somewhere in between the inscrutable Babylonian flood, and the sin-cleansing biblical flood, is the Zoroastrian flood.

在不可理解的巴比和洗净罪恶的圣经之间，是琐罗亚斯德教的。

It was he who raged furiously against them in the storm, but he never abandoned his people.

是他会在雷雨中可怕地向他们震怒，但是当埃及人压迫他们以及巴比人劫持他们的时候，他终究不会遗弃这个民族。

In the Babylonian stories of creation, we learn about the enormous snake Tiamat, which we've mentioned before.

在巴比的创世故事中，我们了解到条巨大的蛇——提亚马特，我们之前提到过它。

Nearly 600 years later, in nearby Babylon, eclipse watchers would finally figure out the pattern that eclipses follow.

大约 600 年后，在附近的巴比，观测日食的人终于发现了日食的规律。

Even before Hippocrates extolled the diagnostic virtues of pee-sniffing, early Sumerian and Babylonian physicians were making urine-related observations.

甚至在希波克拉底颂扬嗅尿的诊断优点之前，早期苏美尔人和巴比的内科医生已经进行了尿液相关的观察。

13 inches of rain fell in the town of Babylon on Long Island Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

降从周二早上直持续至周三早上，纽约长岛巴比镇的降量达13英寸。

His first act was to free all the peoples held in captivity by the Babylonians.

而他所做的第件事便是释放被巴比人监禁的人们。

Herodotus, in his description of Babylon, does not mention the gardens.

希罗多德在他对巴比的描述中，并没有提到花园。

Art from ancient Egypt and Babylon also showed detailed depictions of wrestlers doing moves and holds still used today.

古埃及和巴比的艺术作品上也有对摔跤手的详细描绘，他们的动作和姿势沿用至今。

This 4000 year old Babylonian recipe for lamb and beet stew produces a dish surprisingly like traditional Slavic borscht.

这道有四千年历史的巴比羊肉和甜菜炖菜制作的菜肴与传统的斯拉夫罗宋汤令人惊讶地相似。

You can take a book like the richest man in Babylon, and finish it in literally only two hours.

你可以阅读《巴比的富翁》，并只用2个小时就可以浏览完。

The perfumers of ancient Babylon, however, combined multiple scents into one perfume and used solvents to create the final product.

然而，古代巴比的香师将多种香味组合成种香，并使用溶剂制成最终产品。

Later Babylonian chronicles paint a completely different picture of what happened.

后来的巴比编年史描绘了幅完全不同的画面。

Well, the Babylonian and Sumerian scribes who wrote these used to be basically no system.

这些文献的巴比和苏美尔书记员们过去基本上是没有系统的。