The antiquity of a law alone is no justification for its usage. Aristotle seems to reject you might say Burkean conservatism long before the time.(法律的古老性不能作为其用法的借口,亚里士多德似乎事先拒绝,你可能会说柏克式的保守主义,古老与传统并不能。)
We've known since antiquity that you could take gold, and you can hammer to very, very thin foil.(我们从很久以前就知道,你可以能用锤子把金敲成非常非常薄的箔片。)
The statue was brought to Rome in antiquity.(这座雕像是古时运到罗马的。)
But there is at least one more basic category that is found in antiquity.(但至少还有一类自古代沿袭至今的项目。)
The blue diamond is one vivid pointer to the antiquity of the Greenland ice sheet.(蓝钻石是显示格陵兰冰盖有多古老的生动指针。)
We usually think of Greece as the home of Plato and Pericles, its real importance lying deep in antiquity.(其实每当提到希腊,我们就会想到它是古希腊哲学家柏拉图和古雅典伯里克利的故乡,而且古希腊时期是希腊最为重要的历史时期。)
In antiquity, many of his followers said the books contained hidden layers of meaning and secret codes but this was rejected by modern scholars.(古时候,他的许多追随者都说书里隐藏有另一层意义和暗号,但这种说法遭到现代学者的拒绝。)
Whatever the weight of antiquity, truth should always have the advantage .(无论古人的份量有多么重,真理总是占着优势。)
In other words, he hoped to revive in some way the spirit of the ancients of antiquity, but to modify it in the lights of his own experience.(换句话说,他希望能够,复兴远古先贤的精神,但加入,他个人的亲身经历。)
Latin words of course usually originated back in Roman antiquity and in that context a client was a plebeian under the patronage of a patrician.(当然,拉丁词一般可以回溯到古典罗马时期,在当时的语境中,client是指得到贵族资助的庶民。)