来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新约及其历史背景 第2集 第2集》

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  rather than before them, as we have in our list.
  而不是像我们现在的一样 放在前面
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  And then, we don't really start getting any kind of
  之后 书目还会有变化
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  consistency with this until into the third
  这种情况一直持续到三世纪
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  and fourth and fifth and sixth centuries.
  四世纪 五世纪和六世纪
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  So what I'm saying now is
  我的意思是
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  it took a long time for this to solidify.
  书目要固定下来 需要很长时间
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  And one of the things we think made it solidify
  能使之定下来的条件之一
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  was the development of codices, a codex.
  是手抄本的发展
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  What is a codex?
  什么是手抄本
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  Early books were all scrolls.
  早期的书都是卷轴
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  So if you had a book as long as the Gospel of Matthew,
  如果你有本书和马太福音一样长
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  it'd take up a pretty thick scroll.
  那卷起来会很厚