Few continue the old nomadic way of life.

很少有人保持着古老游牧民族生活方式。

You need to be able to ride on horseback to be a nomad.

你要会骑马，才能成为游牧民族一员。

They were more concerned with protecting China against its traditional enemies, nomads from the steppe.

他们更关保护中国免受其传统敌人——来自草原游牧民族侵害。

As the Roman Empire expanded, it faced raids and invasions from the semi-nomadic populations along its borders.

随着罗马帝国扩张，它面临着边界沿线半游牧民族袭击和入侵。

Utsi's modern kitchen was still full of the traditional handicrafts of the nomads, made on her summer trips to the mountains.

Utsi 现代厨房仍然摆满了游牧民族传统手工艺品，这些都她夏天到山上旅行时制作。

Philip passed his hand over the picture as if he wanted to feel the houses and the loose habiliments of the nomads.

菲利普用手抚摸着这幅画，仿佛他想感受游牧民族房屋和宽松衣着。

But in later representations, they wielded bows and battle-axes, rode horses, and wore pointed caps and patterned trousers characteristic of steppe nomads.

但在后来表现中，他们挥舞着弓箭和战斧，骑着马，穿着草原游牧民族特有尖头帽和带图案裤子。

What's incredible about Mongolian nomads is that the neighbors are often 40 kilometers apart, and there's no private land ownership of pasture land in Mongolia.

蒙古游牧民族不可思议处在于， 邻往往相距40公，而且蒙古境内没有牧场私人土地所有权。

For example, during his reign as leader of the Mongol Hordes, it’s been speculated that Genghis Khan killed as much as 11% of the world's population.

例如，据推测，成吉思汗在他作为蒙古游牧民族领袖统治期杀死了世界上多达 11% 人口。

Thanks you guys, I really appreciate this. All right, I'm gonna get packing again. Man, I've been moving around so much I'mbeginning to feel like a nomad.

谢谢，非常感谢 我又要去收拾行李了 一直搬来搬去 我简直像个游牧民族了！

By then, nomads were being eclipsed by professional merchants who travelled the silk roads, often making huge profits, but those cities that had been founded by nomadic peoples became hugely important.

到那时，游牧民族已经被丝绸路上职业商人黯然失色， 他们常常赚取巨额利润， 但游牧民族建立城市变得非常重要。

So the city state period in Mesopotamia ended around 2,000 BCE, probably because drought and a shift in the course of rivers led to pastoral nomads coming in and conquering the environmentally weakened cities.

美索不达米亚在公元前2000 结束，可能因为干旱，河道改变，导致游牧民族入侵并征服了这些环境脆弱城市。

I think that our national identity, for at least the educated class, is built on the idea that Russia sacrificed itself and stood in the way of Mongolian hordes, and that allowed European culture to thrive and have a renaissance.

我认为我们民族认同，至少对于受过教育阶级来说， 建立在这样一种观念上， 即俄罗斯牺牲了自己并挡住了蒙古游牧民族道路，这让欧洲文化得以繁荣和复兴。

IN 1918, I turned my back on the world I had known and went to north-west Africa and lived with the Arabs in the Sahara, the Garden of Allah. I lived there seven years. I learned to speak the language of the nomads.

1918 年，我背弃了我所熟悉世界，前往非洲西北部，在阿拉花园撒哈拉沙漠中与阿拉伯人一起生活。我在那住了七年。我学会了说游牧民族语言。