for the next nine thousand years, in fact until european contact in the sixteenth century ad, the civilisations of the americas would develop on their own.
于是在接下来的九千多年,直到公元十六世纪左右欧洲探险者重新发现了美洲,在此之间的悠悠岁月里,美洲文明将独立发展,自成一体。
peasant couple plowing. sixteenth century b. c. egypt.
《耕耘着的农夫与农妇》。公元前十六世纪埃及。
the arrival of silver from the new world in the sixteenth century triggered sustained inflation.
来自美洲新大陆的白银,在16世纪就曾引发持久的通胀。
the isabella stewart gardner museum does not seem like a museum. it looks like what it is: a large, beautiful home built in the style of sixteenth century italy.
这座伊莎贝拉.斯图尔特.加德纳博物馆看起来并不像是一个博物馆,它看起来就像是一座建于有着十六世纪意大利风格的漂亮住宅,但这座房子中收藏着二千多件各种艺术品,这些艺术品按照时间和地点有组织地陈列在一间又一间的房间里。
for example, the introduction of the potato, which can be grown quickly and economically, to northern europe from south america in the sixteenth century helped free the masses from age-old hunger.
例如,在16世纪生长较快而成本较低的马铃薯从南美洲引入北欧,有助于人们摆脱长期以来的饑饿。
the sonnet, along with other italian forms, was introduced to england in the sixteenth century by sir thomas wyatt and his younger contemporary henry howard, earl of surrey.
16世纪初,十四行诗连同其他一些意大利文学形式,由托马斯怀特和年纪略小于他的萨里伯爵引入英格兰。这两位诗人不仅翻译了很多彼得拉克的作品,并且也各自独立创作。
the sixteenth century french buccaneer francois le clerc was nicknamed 「jambe de bois」 because of his wooden leg.
16世纪法国海盗弗朗索瓦·克莱尔因为他的木制腿而获得了「jambedebois」的绰号。
it was not until the sixteenth century that a constructive effort toward solving the ocean's mysteries was begun.
直到十六世纪才开始做出了积极的尝试来揭开大洋之谜。
that early sixteenth century citation that came after the first one in the fourteenth century in the poem was from a guy named thomas elyot in a work he called the boke named the gouernour.
最早的引证来自十四世纪,紧随其后的第二条例证来自十六世纪,它出自于托马斯·埃利奥特《统治者之书》里的一首诗。
during the first half of the sixteenth century the city of rome gradually rose to a position of cultural leadership.
十六世纪上半叶,罗马城逐渐提高到了一个文化领导者的地位。