BC stands for Before Christ, indicating a time in history prior to the birth of Jesus.
BC 表示“基督之前”，指的是耶稣诞生前的历史时期。
The Great Wall of China was built over several centuries
BC.
中国的长城是在公元前几个世纪建造的。
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia flourished around 4000
BC.
美索不达米亚的古代文明在公元前4000年左右繁荣昌盛。
The Pyramids of Giza were constructed in the 26th century
BC.
吉萨的金字塔建于公元前26世纪。
In
BC times, people relied on agriculture for their livelihood.
在那个
BC时代，人们依靠农业为生。
The concept of democracy originated in Greece in the 5th century
BC.
民主的概念起源于公元前5世纪的希腊。
Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44
BC, marking a significant turning point in Roman history.
屋大维·凯撒在公元前44年被刺杀，这是罗马历史上的一个重要转折点。
The Indus Valley Civilization is known for its advanced urban planning, dating back to 2600
BC.
印度河流域文明以其先进的城市规划而闻名，可追溯到公元前2600年。
The Oracle of Delphi was a famous religious site in ancient Greece, active from around 800
BC.
德尔斐神谕是古希腊著名的宗教场所，大约从公元前800年开始活跃。
The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the earliest known works of literature, was written around 2100
BC.
《吉尔伽美什史诗》是已知最早的文学作品之一，写于公元前2100年左右。
A KFC restaurant in Changsha, the capital of Central China's Hunan province, is themed on a square vessel with four rams from the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC-1046 BC).
"We're in an extraordinarily promising business," says Sun Xinrong, founding partner, chairman and chief investment officer of BC Capital — a budding financial house specializing in asset and wealth management, as well as investment banking, in China.
Sun recalls that when they launched BC Capital four years ago, the private equity business had just got off the ground on the mainland after a period of unrestrained growth.
He co-founded BC Capital with Allen Feng who's now its president and was formerly managing director at Morgan Stanley Asia Pacific, with over 30 years' experience in the fixed-income business.
BC Capital had invested in Zhong An Online P&C Insurance in 2015.
As for its current offshore operations, BC Capital focuses on three areas — overseas mergers and acquisitions, fixedincome funds and fund of funds.
Alibaba's "five blessings" offering this year features images of cultural relics related to tigers from 22 museums nationwide, telling stories spanning from the Shang Dynasty (c.16th century-11th century BC) to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), as a celebration of the Year of the Tiger.
Qionglai is also known for Zhuo Wenjun (175 BC-121 BC), a local celebrity known as one of the Four Great Talented Women in ancient China.
"Kingdom of Storms" is the first installment of a trilogy based on the household Chinese fantasy novel "Investiture of the Gods," which features mythological stories taking place in ancient China's Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) and Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC).
The attraction is renowned for terra cotta warriors from the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC).
Based on the 1995 discovery of 200 clay vessels that had traces of grape wine in Shandong province, China has likely been making wine since around 2,600 BC, but it wasn't until the last decade that consumption became mainstream as cellars stocked with wine from across the world started emerging in cities like Shanghai.
Also known as Duanwu Festival, it commemorates the suicide of patriotic poet Qu Yuan from the state of Chu during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC).
Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, is traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar to commemorate Qu Yuan, a well-known poet and minister of the State of Chu during the Warring States Period (475 BC-221 BC), who drowned himself in the Miluo River after he was banished and accused of treason for his well-intended advice to the king.
端午节，又称龙舟节，是中国传统节日，于农历五月初五这一天举行，以纪念战国时期（公元前475年—公元前221年）楚国著名诗人及大臣屈原。屈原因遭流放并被诬陷叛国，尽管其忠言逆耳，仍投汨罗江自尽。
Saenklue is a prime example among the 8,000 Southeast Asian graduates from the Thailand-based program, which was named after Chinese craftsman and inventor Lu Ban of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC).
Saenklue是该项目自成立以来培养的8000名东南亚毕业生中的典范。该项目总部设于泰国，以春秋时期（公元前770年至公元前476年）中国工匠与发明家鲁班命名。
In a visit to the restored ancient Meili town in Wuxi, our group learned the story of Taibo, the first son of King Tai of the Zhou Dynasty (c.11th century-256 BC), who established the state of Wu, which was centered on present-day Wuxi on the north side of Taihu Lake.
在访问修复后的无锡梅里古镇时，我们了解到周太王（约公元前11世纪-256年）的长子泰伯的故事，他建立了以太湖北岸现在的无锡为中心的吴国。
Austria will work harder to tap business opportunities in the Chinese market, the largest in the world with 1.4 billion consumers, said Friedrich Stift, the Austrian ambassador to China, at a medal presentation ceremony for Huang Geng, chairman and general manager of BC Sports, in Beijing.
A story tracing back to 365 BC goes that the mother of great Chinese philosopher Mencius moved home three times to ensure an environment conducive to her son's education.
They were inspired mainly by the museum's Egyptian collections and the Rosetta Stone, a slab found in 1799 inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty (305-30 BC).
Richard Kurland, a Vancouver immigration lawyer and member of the Law Society of BC told China Daily that the Crown has represented the US and the extradition standard has been reduced in the case.
Discovered in 1974, the army of Terracotta Warriors was built by Emperor Qinshihuang of the Qin Dynasty (221 BC-207 BC), who unified China for the first time.
He introduced a national research project that traced its origins in China, which included studies on a number of sites in the Yellow River Basin, like the Erlitou site in Luoyang, Henan, which existed from the 18th to 16th century BC, and the approximately 4,000-year-old Shimao site in Shenmu, Shaanxi province.
The plan covers different types of traditional Chinese opera, including Huangmeixi Opera, which is also known as caichaxi (tea-picking opera) and originated in Anqing in Anhui province during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), and Qinqiang Opera, which is popular in northwestern China and particularly in Shaanxi province and has its roots in the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC).
It is widely believed to have been the capital toward the end of the Xia Dynasty (c.21st century-16th century BC), the first dynasty in traditional Chinese historiography.
The 3,300-year-old site used to be the capital of the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th-11th century BC) during its later period, and the home of the oracle bone inscriptions, the oldest known Chinese system of writing.