Yes, that's an interesting point, Neil. I can imagine big strong men imposing their will by force in the Stone Age, but behaving this way now probably isn't a good idea.

是的，这个观点很有趣，尼尔。我可以想象在石器时代一个高大强壮的男人威逼他人按他的意愿行事，但是这种行为在现在经无法被接受了。

The wheel. A perfect function invented in the Stone Age.

轮子。石器时代发明的完美部件。

You could say the Stone Age went on for ages and ages and ages.

你可以说石器时代历时了很久很久。

The stone axes used to chop down trees to make these dwellings were far superior to any of that the Stone Age hunter-gatherers used.

用于砍伐树木建造房屋的石斧要优于任何石器时代原始狩猎族用的工具。

This was the period between the Stone Age and the Iron Age.

这一时期介于石器时代铁器时代之间。

Because bedbugs have actually been harassing humans since the stone age.

因为事实上，床虱于石器时代便开始骚扰人类了。

Polynesians carve statues from rock with stone age tools.

波利尼西亚人用石器时代的工具雕刻石像。

Researchers now think that Stone-Age humans carried the creatures by sea some 8,000 years ago.

研究人员现在认为大概 8000 年前，石器时代的人类携带了这些生物跨过海洋。

This Stone-Age bread was probably baked in thin cakes on flat stones.

这种石器时代的面包可能是在扁平的石头上烤成薄饼的。

One thing Dr Falotico and Dr Proffitt have noticed is that some of the sharp flakes that fly off when hammer meets anvil look identical to Stone Age blades made by human beings.

FaloticoProffitt博士注意到了一件事—当铁锤与铁砧碰撞时所脱落的一些锋利薄片看起来石器时代人类制造的刀片一模一样。

It was probably a project of epic scale for the Stone Age, requiring a level of organization we didn't know early humans were capable of until we found this site.

这可能是为石器时代的史诗规模的项目，之前我们并不知道知道早期人类们有此等组织能力，直到现在我们发现了这个遗址。

But this picture may be false — analysis of prehistoric remains suggests that Stone Age people were skilled in processing and cooking different kinds of seeds, even experimenting with different flavours.

但是这个画面可能是假的——对史前遗迹的分析表明，石器时代的人擅长加工烹饪不同种类的种子，甚至会尝试做出不同的味道。

According to the official statistics, about 15,000 pieces of cultural relics from the Stone Age, the Babylonian, Assyrian, and Islamic periods were stolen or destroyed by looters after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled by US-led troops in 2003.

据官方统计，2003 年萨达姆政权被美国领导的军队推翻后，大约有一万五千件石器时代、巴比伦、亚述伊斯兰时期的文物被抢劫者偷走摧毁。

It's emerged that the head of the UN climate conference recently cast doubt on the world's ability to phase out fossil fuels without, as he put it, going back to living in caves.

联合国气候峰会主席对世界是否有能力在不回归石器时代的情况下逐步淘汰化石燃料表示怀疑。

The stone axes used to chop down trees to make these dwellings were far superior to any that the stone age hunter-gatherers used.

用来砍伐树木来建造这些住所的石斧远远优于石器时代狩猎采集者使用的任何斧头。

The 50-year-old actress said she wasn't going to do a big speech as she did her coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age.

福斯特今年50岁，她表示不用把这当成什么盛大的出柜演说，因为她早在一千年前的石器时代就经出柜了。

However, we do know that, at least in one way, Stone Age people were not so different from ourselves - they found inspiration and pleasure in art.

然而，我们确切地知道，石器时代的人们至少在一个方面与我们没有什么大的不同，那就是他们从艺术中获得了灵感愉悦。

That is much earlier than the next oldest evidence for cooking, about 170,000 years ago, which showed Stone Age humans ate cooked roots in South Africa.

这比第二古老的烹饪证据（大约17万年前）要早得多，后者表明石器时代的人类在南非吃煮过的根。

It was the last of three Stone Ages — the first one, known as the Palaeolithic, began in Britain a whopping nine hundred thousand years ago.

这是三个石器时代的最后一个阶段——第一个，被称为 “旧石器时代”，发生在很久很久以前的不列颠，大概九十万年前。

You may remember the words ages being used to talk about different periods of history, like the ice age, stone age, or bronze age.

大家应该都知道“ages”可以用来表示各个不同的历史时代，比如冰川时代（the ice age），石器时代（stone age），铜器时代（bronze age）。