A historic, aquatic jewel that researchers say probably dates back to the late 500's A.D.

是一颗历史悠久的水上明珠，专家称威尼斯的历史可以上溯到公元500。

And so it goes on, further and further back.

所以就这样永远上溯，再上溯。

Would he head up to the shores of Asia? Would he pull nearer to the beaches of Europe?

他又上溯回到亚洲侮岸去吗？他要走近欧洲岸吗？

After touching the Tropic of Capricorn at longitude 135 degrees, it headed west-northwest, going back up the whole intertropical zone.

诺第留斯号的航路显然是变了方向。 在西经135度上接触到南回归线的时候，船又上溯南北两回归线间的水，向西北偏西驶去。

Look here, I went on, as yet there's no cause for despair. We're going up the coast of Portugal.

瞧着吧，我又说，事情并不是完全没有希望。我们现在沿葡萄牙岸上溯了。

It’s a tradition that goes back at least 100 years.

【go】这个传统至少可上溯到 100 。

That same year the American Morrel, whose reports are dubious, went along the 42nd meridian, finding open sea at latitude 70 degrees 14'.

同，美国人莫列尔，他的记述不可靠，从西经42度上溯，在纬度70度14分上发现自由流动的。

It was formed by the long curve of little Mannar Island. To reach it we had to go all the way up Ceylon's west coast.

这湾由马纳尔小岛的延长岸线所形成。要到这湾，必须上溯锡兰岛整个西部岸。

Going up Ceylon's west coast during the night, the Nautilus lay west of the bay, or rather that gulf formed by the mainland and Mannar Island.

在夜间上溯了锡兰岛西部岸，现在到了这口的西边，或不如说，到了马纳尔岛陆地形成的这个湾的西边。

While some verses from the epic date to circa 2100 BCE, the most recent version of the text, composed in Akkadian cuneiform, an ancient Semitic language of Mesopotamia, dates to the Neo-Assyrian period, 9th to the 6th century BCE.

尽管这部史诗的某些诗句可追溯至约公元2100，但文本的最新版本是用阿卡德楔形文字书写的，这种古闪米特语源自美索不达米亚，其代则可上溯至新亚述时期，即公元9世纪至公元6世纪。