Learning extends our lives(as Ptolemy said) into new dimensions.

习将我们的生命延伸（如托勒密所说）至新的维度。

Is it a) Cleopatra, b) Ptolemy, or c) Ramesses?

是 A. 克莉奥帕特拉，B.托勒密，还是 C. 拉美西斯？

In 305 BC, the Antigonids of Macedonia who were also rivals of the Ptolemies, besieged Rhodes in an attempt to break the Rhodo-Egyptian alliance.

公元前305年，托勒密一世的对手，马其顿王国安提柯一世，为了打破罗德—联盟包围了罗德岛。

Following Alexander's death, Ptolemy the 1st initiated the age of Hellenistic Egypt.

亚历山大死后，托勒密一世开启了希腊化的时代。

But going back to ancient Greeks, like Ptolemy, people figured out this pretty neat connection.

是追溯到古希腊人，比如托勒密人，人们发现了这种非常巧妙的联系。

He had been the first to turn a telescope to the sky, and he had seen there evidence enough to overthrow Aristotle and Ptolemy together.

他是第一个把望远镜对准天空的人，观察到的论足以把亚里士多德和托勒密一起推翻。

Bearing a Ptolemaic decree conveniently written out in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek, the Rosetta Stone triggered a veritable explosion in the nascent field of Egyptology - First in France, and then in Britain, where the stone eventually ended up after Napoleon's defeat.

罗塞塔石碑上刻有一份托勒密法令，分别以象形文字、世俗体和希腊文书写，这在当时刚刚兴起的领域引发了一场真正的热潮——最初在法国，后来随着拿破仑战败，石碑最终被运抵英国。

And when people asked me what your favorite moments were doing it, it's like my favorite moments were being alone and being just me with Ptolemy.

当人们问我你演这部戏时最喜欢的时刻是什么，我回答说我最喜欢的时刻就是独处，和托勒密独处的时光。

So Copernicus's revolutionary ideas about planetary motion, for example, were sparked by a new commentary on Ptolemy published in 1496, which the young astronomer read when he was 23 years old.

例如，哥白尼关于行星运动的革命性想法，最初是受到 1496 年发表的一篇关于托勒密的新评论的启发，而那时这位年轻的天文家 23 岁。

The medieval Mappa Mundi in England's Hereford cathedral, for example, is little more than drawings on vellum, or stretched calfskin, and it lacks Ptolemy's geometric method.

比如，中世纪制作的英格兰赫里福德教堂世界地图不过是些绘在羔皮、或者说拉伸了的犊皮上的图案，没有使用托勒密的几何方法。

Despite the requirement of having her husband, Ptolemy XIII, appointed to rule with her, she didn't take kindly to having him tagging along.

尽管她的丈夫托勒密十三世被任命与她一起统治，她并不喜欢让他跟着她。

For a long time, from Ptolemy to the age of Copernicus, it was widely believed and accepted that planets revolved in a perfectly circular path.

在很长一段时间里，从托勒密到哥白尼时代，人们遍相信并接受行星以完美的圆形轨道运行。

The priests were critical in keeping the hearts and minds of the Egyptian masses on side for Ptolemy, and the Rosetta Stone was their reward.

祭司在确保民众全身心地拥护托勒密的统治方面发挥着重大作用，罗塞塔石碑上雕刻的承诺便是对他们的回报。

His methods were sound, and they were used later by great thinkers like Hipparchus and Ptolemy to get more accurate sizes and distances.

他的方法是可靠的，后来伟大的思想家如希帕库斯和托勒密使用这些方法测出了更精确的尺寸和距离。

Ptolemy was an Egyptian astronomer, mathematician and geographer born around 100 A.D., but his name has not been used for any NASA missions.

托勒密是天文家、数家和地理家，出生于公元100年左右，他的名字还未曾用于美国国家航空航天局任务的命名。

Sure, it was made during the Ptolemaic dynasty which was 2500 years after Djoser, but, well, let's go with it anyway.

当然，它是在托勒密王朝制作的，比乔塞尔的王朝晚2500年，是，好吧，我们继续。

The most popularly named culprit is Julius Caesar, who set fire to the harbor when he was battling Ptolemy XIII.

这位最有名的罪犯是尤利乌斯·恺撒，他在与托勒密十三世交战时放火烧毁了港口。

Though he was a real astronomer and mathematician, Ptolemy's name has not been used for a NASA mission.

尽管托勒密是位货真价实的天文家和数家，他的名字还未被用于NASA的航天任务。

He died before construction began, but his successor, Ptolemy I, executed Alexander's plans for a museum and library.

图书馆开建之前，他就去世了。他的继任者托勒密一世，继续执行亚历山大的计划，开始建造博物馆和图书馆。

The coffin once held the Mummy of Nedjemankh, a priest in the ptolemaic period some 2,000 years ago.

这具棺椁曾是2000多年前托勒密王朝时期的一名牧师Nedjemankh的木乃伊。