A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
古老
Ancient
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
知识是古老的错误，反映了它的年轻。
I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
我爱年轻人，很多，你那古老的男性双重标准。
There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
在古代的实践中，有些事情是不值得坚持的。
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
如果把这位老水手叫做“老水手”，他就不会有这么好的成绩了。
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
古人对权力的规定比对自由的规定更了解。
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
酒神巴克斯,n。酒神古代发明的一种方便的神，用作醉酒的借口
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
对现代读者来说，任何基于古代文本的东西都很难理解。
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
暴风雨来了。生命被冲走了。古代疼痛再度浮现。现在是时候进行巨大的变革了。
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
它们在走廊的尽头;按照他们古老的习俗，退休后他们喝茶，谈情说爱。
In this world hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible.
在这个世界上，仇恨从来没有消除仇恨。只有爱才能驱散仇恨。这是亘古不变的规律。
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
古希腊人注意到一个四肢伸展的人画了一个圆圈，他的肚脐为中心。
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
有些人非常好学古人所做的事，他们不知道如何与现代人相处。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.
我也深知，文学对世界上的政治纷争和经济危机的影响微乎其微，但它对人类的意义却是源远流长的。
This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths.
既然如此，神话就不应该在古代信仰的科学研究中占据如此重要的地位。
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
二十世纪的医学研究大多是在实验室里进行的;然而，在文艺复兴时期，研究人员首先去图书馆看看古人说了些什么。
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
在我看来，问题在于人们把古老的乡村教堂当作他们的榜样，却没有发现它们和城镇中的教堂之间应该有最明显的区别。
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.
古代社会有拟人化的神:一个巨大的万神殿扩展到几个世纪的王朝戏剧;父亲和儿子，殉难的英雄，不幸的恋人，国王的死亡——这些故事告诉我们傲慢的危险和谦逊的首要地位。