公元前

Floor coverings made of plaited rushes date from the 5th or 4th millennium BC.

&用织成辫的灯芯草做成的地板覆盖物可追溯到公元前5，000～公元前4，000年。&

His military experience included fighting in the battle of Marathon against the Persians in 490 BCE and again against the Persians at Salamis and Platea in 480 BCE.

他的军事经验，包括战斗，战斗的马拉松对波斯人在公元前490 ，并再次对波斯人在萨拉米斯和Platea在公元前480 。

To the end of the second century B.C., a period dominated by three playwrights of New Comedy and Roman Comedy, that is, Menan-der, Plautus and Terence.

第二章所探讨的内容是公元前4世纪末至公元前2世纪末长达两百年的喜剧历史，涉及到了新喜剧和古罗马喜剧的三位代表性的作家米南德、普劳图斯和泰伦斯。

It occurred about 1420 BC, since records exist of "Habiru" invasions of Canaan forty years later - this theory fits well the modern idea that the historical persona of Moses was the early 15th century BC Crown Prince of Egypt called Ramose, who also disappeared from Egyptian records around the time of Queen Hatshepsut's death

由于历史上是记载着四十年以后是存在过迦南人对&哈比鲁&人的入侵，因此它是大约发生在公元前1420年——这种理论迎合现在那种认为摩西是公元前十五世纪早期的埃及王储拉蒙斯的想法，也大约在女法老哈特谢普苏特去世的时候从埃及的历史记载中消失了。

Shalmaneser retook Carchemish in 849 BC, and in 841 BC marched an army against Hazael, King of Damascus, besieging and taking that city.

撒曼以色在公元前849年重新占领卡赫美士，在公元前841年带领一支军队击败大马士革国王哈薛，围困和攻占那座城市。

Sugar Cane. Ths crop is of uncertain origin, but was probably domesticated from wild Saccharum grasses growing in India, Southeast Asia or the Indonesian archipelago.

甘蔗。 这种作物的起源还不确定，但是可能是由生长在印度、东南亚和印度尼西亚群岛的野生甘蔗草演变而来的，它的栽培可以追溯到公元前两千年的印度和公元前一千年中国的南部。

These epics were written down somewhen in the eighth or seventh century BC, when the Greeks had acquired the use of an alphabet from their more civilized neighbours, but they are supposed to have been in existence very much earlier.

这两部史诗是公元前8世纪或公元前7世纪某个时候写下的，当时希腊人已经从那些文明程度更高的邻国学会使用字母，不过据现在推测，史诗在此之前早已存在。

Sanders, and Geza Vermes argue that Jesus lived from about 8-4 BC/BCE to 29-36 AD/CE.

Sanders 和 Geza Vermes 都争论说耶稣是活在大约从公元前8—4年到公元前29—36年。

Fifth century b.c., it was the site of the Lamian War(323-322 b.c.) between the confederated Greeks and the Macedonian general Antipater, who was besieged in the city for several months before his ultimate victory.

该市大约于公元前5世纪建立，希腊联邦与马其顿将军安提帕特之间的拉米亚战争（公元前323年－322年）就爆发于此地，安提帕特将军在该市被困几个月后最后取得胜利。

By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code.

这些痕迹是游牧人留下的，他们生活在从公元前约 35，000 年到公元前 10，000 年的冰川期的末期，以狩猎，捕鱼为生。

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。