时间:2019-01-29 作者:英语课 分类:世界小史


英语课

 The script is called cuneiform, meaning wedge-shaped.


人们称它为cuneiform,意思是楔形文字。
Books made of papyrus 1 were unknown to the Mesopotamians.
人们在美索不达米亚不曾发现过莎草纸书。
They inscribed 2 these signs into tablets of soft clay, which they then baked hard in ovens.
人们将全部记号写在软的泥土上,然后将它放在炉里烤干,于是就产生了坚硬的碑。
Huge numbers of these ancient tablets have been found, some recounting long and wonderful stories,
人们找到了一大批这样的古老的碑,一些碑上面刻着极美的长篇故事,
such as that of the hero Gilgamesh and his battles with monsters and dragons.
比如英雄吉尔伽美什以及他与巨兽和龙搏斗的故事。
On other tablets kings boast of their deeds:the temples they have built for all eternity 3, and all the nations they have conquered.
在其它碑上国王们吹嘘它们的业绩,他们建立了哪些永恒的神庙,他们征服了多少个部族。
There are also tablets on which merchants recorded their business dealings–contracts, receipts and inventories 4 of goods,
也有碑上记载着商人们的活动——上面刻着货物的合同、配方和库存,
and thanks to these we know that, even before the Babylonians and Assyrians, the ancient Sumerians were already great traders.
多亏了这些东西,我们知道苏美尔人在巴比伦尼亚人和亚述人之前就已经是伟大的商人。
Their merchants could calculate with ease, and plainly knew the difference between what was lawful 5 and what was not.
苏美尔人商人很善于计算并且知道区分什么是合法的,什么是不合法的。

n.古以纸草制成之纸
  • The Egyptians wrote on papyrus.埃及人书写用薄草纸。
  • Since papyrus dries up and crumble,very few documents of ancient Egypt have survived.因草片会干裂成粉末所以古埃及的文件很少保存下来。
v.写,刻( inscribe的过去式和过去分词 );内接
  • His name was inscribed on the trophy. 他的名字刻在奖杯上。
  • The names of the dead were inscribed on the wall. 死者的名字被刻在墙上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.不朽,来世;永恒,无穷
  • The dull play seemed to last an eternity.这场乏味的剧似乎演个没完没了。
  • Finally,Ying Tai and Shan Bo could be together for all of eternity.英台和山伯终能双宿双飞,永世相随。
n.总结( inventory的名词复数 );细账;存货清单(或财产目录)的编制
  • In other cases, such as inventories, inputs and outputs are both continuous. 在另一些情况下,比如存货,其投入和产出都是持续不断的。
  • The store must clear its winter inventories by April 1st. 该店必须在4月1日前售清冬季存货。
adj.法律许可的,守法的,合法的
  • It is not lawful to park in front of a hydrant.在消火栓前停车是不合法的。
  • We don't recognised him to be the lawful heir.我们不承认他为合法继承人。
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1-phosphofructaldolase
anticorrosive priming paint
asbestos industry dermatosis
astronomy units
banks on
be BO
be chosen
bite the hand that feeds them
board-type insulant
bodyicing
BRADYBAENIDAE
brittlement
by separate mail
cantilever mast
casamance
chance cards
clutch adjusting cover
coal mine
coefficient of saturation
constitutio
cooly
crakeberries
cryokinesis
dc tie-breaker
deorphanized
Didam
driwerie
drumken sawing machine
dyer's alkanet
endosperm haustorium
epipolar geometry
equilibrium vapor-liquid
everes argiades hellotia
fan air exhaust
fly ash brick
full blooded
get on your knees
glavers
graft fibre
grossard
Grosser Riedelstein
gyroaccelerometer
has no conception of
hematatangionosus
hiv-i
honour-trick
iews
Ignatius of Loyola
impreg
independent subtree
internetwork call redirection/ deflection
interproximal caries
Laurens, Cape
lighteners
lithium tourmaline
loose spot
lord of misrule (england)
megatours
mimin'
n-butyl acetate
noncopyrightable
oligosaccharidic
on the lake
phase-plane
piece-production cost
pipe with coverplate
plightful
ppls
product verfication specification
Rajang
reprioritises
rivergate
salinometers
satiable
set up unit
side car frame angle plate
spark condenser
stare after
stysadin
subendymal
subjectist
superheterodyne detection
surveillance video
symbolic assembly language list
tap-changing transformer regulator
tariff duty
Tent.
tergum gland pheromone
thermal circulation cycle
thin-airfoil theory
third assistant engineer
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tonantzintla
tube-rolling mill
Tuesday week
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unwithheld
urban-limit
vee path
versuore
whel
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