I've brought an old book-he'd written down some of his mother's recipes.

我有本古书，母亲食谱。

This is a queer old book I picked up at a stall yesterday

这是我昨天在书摊子上偶然买到一本珍奇古书。

In 1863, Professor Otto Lindenbrock found a secret message in an old book he had recently bought.

1863年，教授奥拓·林登布朗克在新买一本古书中发现了一个秘密信息。

The ideal blueprint depicted by the sages in ancient books is impossible to realize in reality.

古书中圣贤描绘理想蓝图，在现实中是不可能实现。

This included Roman history and poetry, which were preserved in ancient books copied out by the monks.

这包括罗马历史和诗歌，它保存在僧侣抄古书中。

" We got lost in a tomb, " said Jack. " But we were saved by an ancient book."

“我在坟墓里迷路了，”杰克说。 “但我是一本古书救了。”

The D.H.C. looked at him nervously. There were those strange rumours of old forbidden books hidden in a safe in the Controller's study.

主任紧张地望着。有一些离奇谣言，说是总统书斋一个保险箱里藏着一些禁止古书。

The castle's library was dark, but the king knew what he was looking for: an ancient book filled with knowledge from centuries past.

城堡图书馆漆黑一片，但国王知道要找东西：一本古书，上面记载着几个世纪以前医治魔法创伤办法。

As desertification and war impoverished the region, families held on to the ancient books even as they faced desperate poverty and near-starvation.

随着荒漠化和战争使该地区陷入贫困，即使面临极度贫困和几近饥饿情况，许多家庭仍保留着这些古书。

In vain they lit their furnaces, and in vain they studied their crabbed books, called up the dead, and conjured ghastly spirits.

徒劳地点燃了炉子， 徒劳地研究了古书， 召唤了死者， 并召唤了可怕灵魂。

Browse the vintage books and posters in Plaza de Armas, then take the short walk to Plaza de la Catedral where fortunes are told and salsa spills from beneath the arches.

在阿玛斯广场浏览古书和海报，然后走一小段路到大教堂广场，在那里有算命地方，人也会在拱门跳萨尔萨舞。

By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal.

如一本古书中所说，通常称为“需求”一种命运表象所支配，储存蛾子和锈蚀会使之腐坏、贼人会进入偷窃财富。

You don't, you absolutely don't have to believe in the deities of the ancient books to know that spiritual longing is real, and that humanity is steeped in the sublime.

你不知道，你绝对不必相信古书上神灵，就知道精神上渴望是真实，人性是沉浸在崇高之中。

Magic is a great thing and scarcely any one knows anything about it except a few people in old books—and Mary a little, because she was born in India where there are fakirs.

魔法是一件伟大事情，除了古书上少数人之外，几乎没有人对它一无所知——玛丽略知一二，因为她出生在有苦行僧印度。

In an ancient and mysterious book Yi Jing, or The Book of Changes, number " 6" was thought to be a Yin character, meaning feminine or negative, while number " 9" was thought to be Yang, meaning masculine or positive.

在古书《易经》中，数字“6”认为是一个阴字，意思是阴数，而数字“9”则认为是阳，意思是阳数。

Some historians think that it was due to wars or raiders and cite passages in the older books  of the Rigveda, which describe newcomers (assumed to be Indo-Europeans) attacking the " citadels"   or " walled cities" of the native people.

一些历史学家认为这是由于战争或袭击造成，并引用了《梨俱吠陀》古书中段落，其中描述了新来者（假定是印欧人）攻击当地人“城堡”或“城墙城市”。