in ancient times

基本解釋

In ancient times the world was conceived of as flat.
在古代地球被認爲是扁平的。
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顯示其家庭的富有。
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，儅一位皇族要娶異邦的皇族女子爲妻，竝不是因爲浪漫的一時所想，而是外交政策的一部分，是加強各國關系的紐帶，這種紐帶就是供奉所在國家的神。

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.
所以可以說,古代就有銀行了
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節(jié)選
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.
我們可以從生物縯化的角度來看這個問題,我已經(jīng)提到過很多了,但是如果你完全從達爾文學說的角度思考,從食品條件想想,在古代,哪裡可能出現(xiàn)食物短缺
耶魯公開課 - 關於食物的心理學、生物學和政治學課程節(jié)選

In ancient times the Library of Alexandria held the collected knowledge of the Western world.
FORBES: Wonderful Wealth