There are significant contrasts between the Mesopotamian story and its Israelite adaptation.

在美索不达米亚的故事和它的以色列改编版之间有明显的对比。

Centuries later, the Mesopotamian gods.

数世纪之后，美索不达米亚的众神。

Many of these traditions began with the Mesopotamian celebration of New Years.

圣诞节传统起源于美索不达米亚的新年庆祝活动。

Many of these traditions began with the Mesopotamian celebration of New Years.

许多这些传统开始于美索不达米亚庆祝新年。

In the Mesopotamian stories, for example, the gods act capriciously, the gods act on a whim.

例如，在美索不达米亚的故事中，神肆意妄为，凭着一时的念头做事。

Correspondence is an important material to the study of ancient Mesopotamian civilization.

书信是研究古代两河流域文明的重要文献。

The Mesopotamian king would return to the temple of Marduk and swear his faithfulness to the god.

美索不达米亚国王将回到马杜克神庙，并发誓忠实于神。

The Mesopotamian civilisations, not matter how long ago they started, have been dead for a long time.

不管两河文明起源于多久，很久就已经消亡了。

Other distinct groups are Persians, Lurs, Armenians (possible descendants of the ancient Mesopotamian culture).

其他地区的族群包括波斯人（Persians）、 Lurs、亚美尼亚人（Armenians）（可能是古老美索不达米亚(Mesopotamian )文化的后裔）。

Wall art depicting people using straws of wheat to drink from have been discovered from ancient Mesopotamian ruins.

长城艺术人物使用的小麦秸秆饮料中发现了古代美索不达米亚废墟。

The face of Huwawa was made out of Mesopotamian clay nearly 3, 000 years ago, in the city of Sippar in southern Iraq.

胡娃娃的脸是3000年前南伊拉克的Sippar城用米索布达米亚的粘土制成。

It was not until the reign of the Neo-Babylonian dynasty that the Mesopotamian civilization reached its ultimate glory.

但是直到新巴比伦王朝，美索不达米亚文明才达到了它的鼎盛时期。

The Mesopotamian marshes originally made up an area more than three times the size of Norfolk, where the exhibition is showing, in Holt.

照片展上显示，美索不达米亚湿地原本的面积比 照片展所在的诺福克郡霍尔特大三倍多。

The massive citadels of Indus cities that protected the Harappans from floods and attackers were larger than most Mesopotamian ziggurats.

印度城市厚重的大本营保护着哈拉帕免受洪水和攻击者的伤害，比美索不达米亚最大的金字形神塔还要大。

Duncan Melville is a Professor of Mathematics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, whose special interest is Mesopotamian mathematics.

邓肯·梅尔维尔（Duncan Melville）是纽约坎顿的圣劳伦斯大学数学教授，他的特殊兴趣在于美索不达米亚的数学。

The Mesopotamian view on the srpernatuual is an inextricable mixture of Sumerian and Akkadian origin, influenced by an unknown substrate population.

美索不达米亚人认为不可思议的事是苏美尔和阿卡得起源的不可分混合物，被一种未知的底层人口所影响。

Many of these traditions began with the Mesopotamian celebration of New Years. The Mesopotamians believed in many gods, and as their chief god - Marduk.

这些传统的许多人开始与美索不达米亚的的新年庆祝活动。

Many of these traditions began with the Mesopotamian celebration of New Years. The Mesopotamians believed in many gods, and as their chief god - Marduk.

这些传统的许多人开始与美索不达米亚的新年庆祝活动。

Recriminations over the invasion of Iraq will linger, even though America has rediscovered merit in multilateralism after its Mesopotamian misadventures.

历经了美索不达米亚灾难后，美国重新意识到了多边主义的优点。但即便如此，世人对其入侵伊拉克的指控仍会继续。

The Mesopotamian king was appointed by the gods, and it was one of his most important duties to establish justice for mortals according to the will of the gods.

两河流域的国王是由神所指定的，他最重要的职责之一就是根据神的意志在人间确立正义。

High above the unruffled Mesopotamian sands of southern Iraq, over the land where civilization dawned 8000 years ago, two American fighters circled like hawks in search of an elusive prey.

在伊拉克南部宁静的美索不达米亚沙漠这片年前文明初现曙光的土地上空，两架美国战斗机像老鹰搜寻躲藏的猎物一般盘旋着。