Ancient

(noun.) a person who lived in ancient times.

(noun.) a very old person.

(adj.) very old; 'an ancient mariner' .

(adj.) belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; 'ancient history'; 'ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians'; 'ancient Greece' .

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• In translating him into the language of modern thought, we might insensibly lose the spirit of ancient philosophy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Superiority of birth supposes an ancient superiority of fortune in the family of the person who claims it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Ferguson said, further, that the Pope permits no ancient work of this kind to leave his dominions. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• All the ancient arts of Mexico and Peru have never furnished one single manufacture to Europe. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Your observation of the similitude between many of the words and those of the ancient world, are indeed very curious. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Ancient remains point to a much wider distribution of the Basque speech and people over Spain. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Metallurgy is an ancient art, and the working of gold, silver and copper dates back to the beginning of history. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Both the hospitality and the charity of the ancient clergy, accordingly, are said to have been very great. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The ancient customs were divided into three branches. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• For on the theory, such strata must somewhere have been deposited at these ancient and utterly unknown epochs of the world's history. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Almost all states, however, ancient as well as modern, when reduced to this necessity, have, upon some occasions, played this very juggling trick. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Happy people, who enjoy so many living examples of ancient virtue, and have masters ready to instruct them in the wisdom of all former ages! 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• I alighted at Perdita's ancient abode, her cottage; and, sending forward the carriage, determined to walk across the park to the castle. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The information the ancients didn't have was very voluminous. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He has a clearer conception of the divisions of science and of their relation to the mind of man than was possible to the ancients. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• We need not dwell on what the ancients produced in this line. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I studied the wisdom of the ancients, and gazed on the happy walls that sheltered the beloved of my soul. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Cast Iron Made by Ancients, Disused for 15 Centuries. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Recourse was had to the inventions of the ancients, from whom the paddle-wheel was taken, to find some other means of propulsion. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Having a desire to see those ancients who were most renowned for wit and learning, I set apart one day on purpose. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The age of inventions in the times of the ancients rested mainly upon simple applications of these mechanical powers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The name was applied by the ancients to a period of about forty days, the hottest season of the year, at the time of the rising of Sirius, the dog-star. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The ancients wore their diamonds uncut because they could not find a substance that would grind or cut them. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Like the ancients in general, he had no idea of the gradual perfectibility of man or of the education of the human race. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The ancients usually ranked good fortune among those circumstances of life which indicate merit. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We have some idea how the ancients looked and felt and wrote; the abundant evidence takes us back to the cave-dwellers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The appeals of Confucius to the wisdom of the ancients are always quoted to clinch this suggestion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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