公元前

Periclean Athens, Confucian China and Achaemenid Iran existed at more-or-less the same time, between 500BC and 450BC.

伯里克利时期的雅典孔子时期的中国和阿契美尼德时期的伊朗大约存在于同一历史时期，公元前500年到公元前450年。

IV Macedonica sided always with Julius Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, first against Caesar's murderers in the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, then against Mark Antony in the naval battle of Actium in 31 BC.

第四"马其顿尼卡"军团忠心耿耿地追随屋大维，在他的指挥下参加了讨伐杀害恺撒凶手们的Philippi战役(公元前42年)，随后又参加了公元前31年征讨安东尼的亚克兴海战。

And I thought also of a famous passage in Virgil's" Aeneid" about the death of Marcellus, a verypromising young man who was the adoptive son and heir of the Roman emperor Augustus.

我在想维吉尔（古罗马诗人，公元前70-公元前19）中的一个著名章节关于马赛拉斯之死，一个很有前途的年轻人是一个被收养的儿子，罗马皇帝奥古斯塔斯的继承人。

However, when Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) defeated Darius Ⅲ(reigned 336-330 B.C.) at Arbela, resulting in the latter's death, Persia became a province of Macedonia.

然而，当亚历山大大帝（Alexander the Great，公元前356-323年间）在阿尔比拉打败了大流士三世（公元前336-330年间在位），并导致大流士三世后来死亡时，波斯就成为了马其顿王国的一个省。

Aristophanes continued to write into the fourth century BCE and his last play, Plutus, or Wealth dates from 388 BCE, the year of his death.

阿里斯托芬继续写入公元前4世纪和他最后的进攻， Plutus ，或财富追溯到公元前388年，他的死亡。

In the year 2100 BC to 1900 BC, the construction of the way to the central path.

在 公元前 2100 年至公元前 1900 年，修建了通往中央的道路。

People have suspected that the Earth might be round since as early as Eratosthenes in 240 B.C.– it was mostly just a bunch of dogmatic nut-jobs who continued to insist that the Earth was a birdbath you could fall off of if you sailed too close to the edge. So by the time Columbus rolled around in 1492, pretty much everybody knew they were dealing with a sphere, Chris included.

早在公元前240年，埃拉脱色尼（公元前三世界希腊数学家、天文学家和地理学家，Syna注）就猜测地球可能是圆的——在当时绝大多数人都固执地认为地球像一个盆子，如果你一直向前走接近地球的边缘就会掉下去，因此直到1492年哥伦布环游地球之前，大家才知道他们是在同一个球状的地球打交道。

Under a bottomry contract, loans were granted to merchants with the provision that if the shipment was lost at sea the loan did not have to be repaid.

Bottomry也被印度在公元前600年，也明白在古希腊早在公元前4世纪后半叶。bottomry下，贷款合同规定给予商人，如果发货是在海上失踪的贷款并没有得到偿还。

Indeed, the constellations common in the sky from about 4000 BC to 2000 BC were Taurus the Bull, Canis Minor the Dog, Hydra the Snake, Corvus the Raven, and Scorpio the Scorpion, all of which may be identified in the fresco from Dura-Europos, a standard Hellenistic iconography.

事实上，描绘天空的星座图从大约公元前四千年起到公元前二千年都十分普遍，公牛代表金牛座，狗代表小犬星座，蛇代表长蛇座，乌鸦代表乌鸦座，蝎子代表天蝎座，所有一切都可以在一些壁画上找到，一种希腊风格的肖像画法。

Within a fairly short time after their discovery, historical, paleographic, and linguistic evidence, as well as carbon-14 dating, established that the scrolls and the Qumran ruin dated from the third century B.C.E.

在他们的发现之后相当短的时间里，历史的，古文书学的，语言学，和碳-14测定证据确立了古卷和库姆兰会社遗址开始于公元前第三世纪直到公元前68。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。