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

事实上，它们从约4000年前的巴比伦时代就已经存在了。

Imagine sitting down for dinner in ancient Babylon.

想象一下在古巴比伦共进晚餐的情景。

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伦人提出的。

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伦和伊师塔酒店附近。

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

它跟埃及人和巴比伦人建造的那些庙一样巨大和辉煌。

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

说这个短片是迄今为止最近巴比伦空中花园的。

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

在不可理解的巴比伦洪水和洗净罪恶的圣经洪水之间，是琐罗亚斯德教的洪水。

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伦人劫持他们的时候，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.

在巴比伦的创世故事中，我们了解到一条巨大的蛇——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，在附近的巴比伦，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伦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.

降水从周二早上一直持续至周三早上，纽约长岛巴比伦镇的降水量达13英寸。

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

而他所做的第一件事便是释放被巴比伦人监禁的人们。

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

希罗多德在他对巴比伦的描述中，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.

古埃及和巴比伦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伦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《巴比伦的富翁》，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，古代巴比伦的香水师将多种香味组合成一种香水，并使用溶剂制成最终产品。

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

后来的巴比伦编年史描绘了一幅完全不同的画面。

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

这些文献的巴比伦和苏美尔书记员们过去基本上是没有系统的。