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。
学英语单词
acciospore
administrating
allocation of service department costs
antilog circuit
at our cost
average length deviation of common normal
badge meter
bates's big boll cotton
bean
black stranger
bowl ... out
bug doctor
capsula articularis cricoaryt?noidea
Carabelas
celebenses
chakradhar
chickamaugas
chyladenectasis
clan
colour-match
common-midpoint method
corona preventive screen
cresolase
current collecting equipment with liquid metal
cut sb to shreds
deep investigation induction log
descrive
dove plants
dry cupping
dry-wire drawing
electric mechanical slot
electronic bulletin board
external cathode counter
eyeleteer
Fischer's murmur
formene
get injured
god dammit
gracefull
grain drying plant
grandling
gym muscles
have quicksilver in one's veins
head-level
illiquidly
infrared molecular spectra
interbrain (or twixt brain)
irreformable
irvingias
Itata, R.
Japanese blood fluke
jay-hawker
juscanz
kamcoes
kavalaris
loc'd out
maintenance man-hours
maquiroside
mat reinforcement
metr-
moshers
multihulls
multilayer bearing bush
musculi trachealis
neon timing light tester
nonsinusoidal waveform
not give a tinker's fuck
onda
one-way chromatogram
operation indicator
opole
ordered clause
over-chargeable
paedogenic
pillar shaping machine
put wear the mask of
raphe pterygomandibularis
receiving array
reutters
samendenone
san felix
sebastianas
Securities and Investments Board
senaside
sheriff's
short-term film
sink into oblivion
sound motion picture
spermophytic
stemline
third submarginal cross nervure
throw one's hat in the ring
tight veneer
total predicate
Trandrexen
triangular tooth log-periodic antenna
tuberculin skin tests
tuyere belt
uncodify
webbes
wedge-wire deck
zigzag stitch sewing machining