1. Some of my colleagues insisted it had to have been made well after 100 B.C.E.
我的一些同事坚持认为它肯定是公元前100年后才发明出来的。

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2. An increasingly sophisticated system of administration led in about 3300 B.C.E. to the appearance of writing.
在大约公元前3300年,日益复杂的行政系统导致了文字出现。

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3. By 2300 B.C.E. the number of signs required had been reduced to 600, and the range of words that could be expressed had widened.
到公元前2300年,所需的符号数量已减少到600个,词汇可表达的范围也扩大了。

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4. However, there were a few astronomers in Greece and other places who didn't agree with the geocentric view, for example, a Greek astronomer who lived in the third century B.C.E.
然而,在希腊和其他地方有一些天文学家不同意地心说的观点,例如,一位生活在公元前三世纪的希腊天文学家。

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5. By about 10,000 B.C.E., all those giant creatures, the Metgauna of North America were gone.
到大约公元前10000年,所有那些巨型生物,包括北美的猛犸都消失了。

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6. The period from 3000 to 1000 B.C.E., when the use of bronze became widespread, is normally referred to as the Bronze Age.
在公元前3000年到公元前1000年,即青铜器被广泛使用的这一时期,通常被称为青铜时代。

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7. A tablet engraved about 3000 B.C.E. provides the earliest known example from Sumer, a roofed boxlike sledge mounted on four solid wheels.
来自公元前3000年左右的一块苏美尔的雕刻陶土板提供了已知最早的例证:一个带顶棚的箱状雪橇被安装在四个实心的轮子上。

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8. The earliest, that of Eridu, about 4500 B.C.E., and Uruk, a thousand years later, center on impressive temple complexes built of mud brick.
其中最早的,如公元前4500年的埃利都以及之后1000年出现的乌鲁克,都以用泥砖建造的令人惊叹的庙宇群为中心。

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9. Among the earliest of these prophets is Hosea, who is thought to have written in the 8th century B.C.E..
最早的这批先知之一就是何西阿,《何西阿书》被认为写于公元前8世纪,他拒绝接受所罗门的观点,所罗门认为融入更大的世界能让以色列变得更富有。

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10. Though no other such mechanisms have ever been found, experts believe that many more made around the same time in 100 B.C.E. once existed.
尽管没有其他的类似机械装置被发现,但是专家相信在同期的公元前100年就有很多这样的装置被制造并保存下来。

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11. Although researchers aren't sure when people first added medicinal herbs to their wine, the earliest written evidence of such wines in ancient Egypt comes from papyri dating to about 1850 B.C.E..
虽然研究者不能确定人类第一次将药物加入酒中的时间,但古埃及此类药酒的最早书面证据是一份大约公元前1850年的纸莎草卷。

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12. Although researchers aren't sure when people first added medicinal herbs to their wine, the earliest written evidence of such wines in ancient Egypt comes from papyri dating to about 1850 B.C.E..
虽然研究者不能确定人类第一次将药物加入酒中的时间,但古埃及此类药酒的最早书面证据是一份大约公元前1850年的纸莎草卷。

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