Few continue the old nomadic way of life.

很少有人保持着古老的游牧民族的生活方式。

You need to be able to ride on horseback to be a nomad.

你要会骑马，才能成为游牧民族的一员。

The nomadic custom is that women give away their inheritance rights to their brothers.

游牧民族的风俗是妇女把权交给兄弟。

They were more concerned with protecting China against its traditional enemies, nomads from the steppe.

他们更关心的是保护中国免受其传统敌人——来自草原的游牧民族的侵害。

As the Roman Empire expanded, it faced raids and invasions from the semi-nomadic populations along its borders.

随着罗马帝国的扩张，它面临着边界沿线半游牧民族的袭击和入侵。

Utsi's modern kitchen was still full of the traditional handicrafts of the nomads, made on her summer trips to the mountains.

Utsi 的现代厨房里仍然摆满了游牧民族的传统手工艺品，这些都是她夏天到山上旅行时制作的。

Philip passed his hand over the picture as if he wanted to feel the houses and the loose habiliments of the nomads.

菲利普用手抚摸着这幅画，佛他想感受游牧民族的房屋和宽松的衣着。

But in later representations, they wielded bows and battle-axes, rode horses, and wore pointed caps and patterned trousers characteristic of steppe nomads.

但在后来的表现中，他们挥舞着弓箭和战斧，骑着马，穿着草原游牧民族特有的尖头帽和带图案的裤子。

After Fensheng's death, his descendants came under the control of the Di nomadic peoples, and they betrayed the king by serving these barbarians.

芬生死后，他的子孙都落入氐族游牧民族的控制之下，他们背叛了国王，为这些蛮族服务。

The illnesses these pre-agricultural nomads encountered most likely came from the various animals they ate, and the soil and water they interacted with.

这些前农业游牧民族遇到的疾病很可能来自他们所吃的各种及他们接触的土壤和水。

What's incredible about Mongolian nomads is that the neighbors are often 40 kilometers apart, and there's no private land ownership of pasture land in Mongolia.

蒙古游牧民族的不可思议之处在于， 邻里之间往往相距40公里，而且蒙古境内没有牧场的私人土地所有权。

Spend your afternoon watching the nomadic shepherds tend to their flocks and head over to the village of where you can see the local farmers in action.

下午，您可观看游牧民族牧羊的场面，还可到村子里看看当地农民的劳作。

For example, during his reign as leader of the Mongol Hordes, it’s been speculated that Genghis Khan killed as much as 11% of the world's population.

例如，据推测，成吉思汗在他作为蒙古游牧民族领袖的统治期间杀死了世界上多达 11% 的人口。

Thanks you guys, I really appreciate this. All right, I'm gonna get packing again. Man, I've been moving around so much I'mbeginning to feel like a nomad.

谢谢，非常感谢 我又要去收拾行李了 一直搬来搬去 我简直像个游牧民族的了！

By then, nomads were being eclipsed by professional merchants who travelled the silk roads, often making huge profits, but those cities that had been founded by nomadic peoples became hugely important.

到那时，游牧民族已经被丝绸之路上的职业商人黯然失色， 他们常常赚取巨额利润， 但游牧民族建立的城市变得非常重要。

So the city state period in Mesopotamia ended around 2,000 BCE, probably because drought and a shift in the course of rivers led to pastoral nomads coming in and conquering the environmentally weakened cities.

美索不达米亚在公元前2000 结束，可能是因为干旱，河道的改变，导致游牧民族的入侵并征服了这些环境脆弱的城市。

My missionary friends guessed that the nomads belonged to an uncontacted group called the Fayu, known to the outside world only through accounts by their terrified neighbors, a missionized group of erstwhile nomads called the Kirikiri.

我的传教士朋友猜测，这些游牧民族属于一个与世隔绝的群体，称为“法尤”（Fayu），外界只能通过他们惊恐的邻居的叙述来了解这个群体，这是一个由昔日的游牧民族组成的传教群体，称为“基里基里”（Kirikiri）。

I think that our national identity, for at least the educated class, is built on the idea that Russia sacrificed itself and stood in the way of Mongolian hordes, and that allowed European culture to thrive and have a renaissance.

我认为我们的民族认同，至少对于受过教育的阶级来说， 是建立在这样一种观念之上的， 即俄罗斯牺牲了自己并挡住了蒙古游牧民族的道路，这让欧洲文化得繁荣和复兴。

IN 1918, I turned my back on the world I had known and went to north-west Africa and lived with the Arabs in the Sahara, the Garden of Allah. I lived there seven years. I learned to speak the language of the nomads.

1918 年，我背弃了我所熟悉的世界，前往非洲西北部，在阿拉的花园撒哈拉沙漠中与阿拉伯人一起生活。我在那里住了七年。我学会了说游牧民族的语言。