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1.词汇篇
黄帝 the Yellow Emperor
天坛 Heaven
进行祭天仪式 perform rituals
向上天跪拜 prostrate oneself before the powers of the universe
共产主义革命 Communist revolution
祭祖 honor their ancestors
扫墓 Tomb-Sweeping
破四旧 cast to the four winds
家风 family values
大禹 King Yu
古巴比伦 ancient Iraq
青铜铸件 bronze casting
甲骨文 oracle bones
君权神授 the Mandate of Heaven
朱红的瑞鸟 a great vermillion bird
求道之人 seekers after the Way
孝顺 filial piety
翰林院 the Imperial Academy
周文王 King Wen of the Zhou
百家争鸣 100 schools bloomed
相当高的大司寇官职 a quite high ministerial job
说客 trouble-shooter
红卫兵 the Communist Red Guards
仁爱，仁慈，谦恭，礼仪 Love, benevolence, courtesy, good manners
剥夺旧的贵族 dispossessing the old aristocracies
中国最早的文字 the first Chinese writing
地方官 local magistrates
步兵，弓箭手，骑兵，战车御者 infantry, archers, cavalry, charioteers
兵马俑 Terracotta Army
世界第一个官僚政治体系的中央集权帝国 the world’s first bureaucratic, centralized empire
2.句型篇
家和万事兴。
Family lays the foundation of everything.
正如古人们说，落叶归根。
As the ancients used to say, repaying our roots.
世界上的四大发明均起源于河流，尼罗河、幼发拉底河和恒河，当然还有黄河。
All four of the great old world civilizations began on rivers-the Nile, the Euphrates, the Indus and the Yellow River.
治理河流用于灌溉，让古代人能够养活越来越多的人口
Harness the waters of the river for irrigation that enable ancient people to feed bigger and bigger populations
从这些史前象形文字演变出了现代中文。
Out of these prehistoric pictographs came the modern Chinese script.
敬拜祖先之地
the place where the ancestors were worshiped
青铜器时代的遗迹在黄河淤泥下30英尺深的地方。
The Bronze Age layers here are 30 feet deep in Yellow River silt.
这些甲骨和后来的一些神话是中国对社会和宇宙早期信仰的一些线索 。
The oracle bones and the later myths are clues to early Chinese beliefs about society and the cosmos.
占卜、仪式和文字是国家权力的基础。
Divination, ritual and writing were the basis of state power.
五星聚于房。
When the five planets gather in the constellation called the Chamber
是个思想发酵的时代关于王权本质、国家功能、义务、责任和道德。
When a ferment of ideas grows about the nature of kingship, the function of states，duties, obligation and morality.
在三个长期不和的宗族之间达成和平
broke a peace deal between three feuding clans
通过教会统治者“仁”来恢复文明
restore civilization by teaching rulers to be virtuous
孔子非常热衷于“仁”的思想。
Confucius was very keen on the idea of humaneness, or benevolence.
有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎?
To have guests come from far away is a pleasure, is it not?
在税收和商业方面，统一了度量衡。统一货币。
For tax and commerce, the weights and measures were standardized. There was to be a uniform coinage.
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