in ancient times

基本解释

In ancient times the world was conceived of as flat.
在古代地球被认为是扁平的。
In ancient times, the rich used jade or gold chopsticks to display their wealth.
在古代，富人家用玉筷子或金筷子以显示其家庭的富有。
In ancient times, when a man of royal blood married a foreign woman of royal blood, it wasn't on a romantic whim. It was part of foreign policy, a way to cement relations with another nation.
在古代，当一位皇族要娶异邦的皇族女子为妻，并不是因为浪漫的一时所想，而是外交政策的一部分，是加强各国关系的纽带，这种纽带就是供奉所在国家的神。

In ancient times,however, people believed that the swan was given a special gift of song at the end of its life.
So, you might say, banks existed in ancient times.
所以可以说,古代就有银行了
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We can think about this in an evolutionary way, as I've alluded to a lot, but if you think about it from a completely Darwinian point of view, and you think about these food conditions where food would be scarce in ancient times.
我们可以从生物演化的角度来看这个问题,我已经提到过很多了,但是如果你完全从达尔文学说的角度思考,从食品条件想想,在古代,哪里可能出现食物短缺
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In ancient times the Library of Alexandria held the collected knowledge of the Western world.
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