1·Minutes and seconds are the verbal and written representations of an uncommon base-60 number system used in ancient Mesopotamia.
分和秒是古代美索不达米亚使用的一种不常见的60进制数字系统的口头和书面表达。
2·Some of the earliest human civilizations arose in southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq, in the fourth millennium B.C..
一些最早的人类文明于公元前4000年出现在美索不达米亚南部，也就是现在的伊拉克南部。
3·The great civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the area we refer to as the Fertile Crescent, of which a little part here about the size of Rhode Island is Canaan.
古埃及，美索不达米亚和我们称为新月沃土的地区的伟大文明，其中一小部分面积和罗德岛差不多就是迦南。
4·This is not good but not so bad as for the Aral Sea and Mesopotamia.
对于咸海与美索不达米亚地区而言，这不是好消息，但也不是那么糟糕。
5·Pythagoras is best known for the theorem that bears his name, but it was discovered much earlier in Mesopotamia.
毕达哥拉斯最出名的是与他同名的定理，不过这一定理在美索不达米亚更早被人们发现。