时间:2019-01-29 作者:英语课 分类:世界小史


英语课

   Next to these brightly colored paintings you often see lots of tiny pictures of all sorts of things,


  在这一排排彩色画像的旁边,你往往会看到许多画着各种各样的东西的小画像,
  such as owls 1 and little people, flags, flowers, tents, beetles 2 and vases, together with zigzag 3 lines and spirals, all jumbled 4 up together.
  比如猫头鹰、小人、旗子、花、帐篷、甲虫和花瓶,被锯齿形线和螺旋线连接,互相紧密并排。
  Whatever can they be?
  这会是什么呢?
  They aren't pictures, they are hieroglyphs 5 - or 'sacred signs' - the Egyptian form of writing.
  它们不是图画,它们是象形文字--或"神圣的符号"--古埃及人的书写形式。
  The Egyptians were immensely proud of their writing - indeed, they were almost in awe 6 of it.
  埃及人为他们的文字感到非常自豪--确实,他们几乎敬畏它。
  And of all professions, that of scribe was the most highly esteemed 7.
  在所有行业中,书写员是最最受尊重的。

n.猫头鹰( owl的名词复数 )
  • 'Clumsy fellows,'said I; 'they must still be drunk as owls.' “这些笨蛋,”我说,“他们大概还醉得像死猪一样。” 来自英汉文学 - 金银岛
  • The great majority of barn owls are reared in captivity. 大多数仓鸮都是笼养的。 来自辞典例句
n.甲虫( beetle的名词复数 )
  • Beetles bury pellets of dung and lay their eggs within them. 甲壳虫把粪粒埋起来,然后在里面产卵。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • This kind of beetles have hard shell. 这类甲虫有坚硬的外壳。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.曲折,之字形;adj.曲折的,锯齿形的;adv.曲折地,成锯齿形地;vt.使曲折;vi.曲折前行
  • The lightning made a zigzag in the sky.闪电在天空划出一道Z字形。
  • The path runs zigzag up the hill.小径向山顶蜿蜒盘旋。
adj.混乱的;杂乱的
  • Books, shoes and clothes were jumbled together on the floor. 书、鞋子和衣服胡乱堆放在地板上。
  • The details of the accident were all jumbled together in his mind. 他把事故细节记得颠三倒四。
n.象形字(如古埃及等所用的)( hieroglyph的名词复数 );秘密的或另有含意的书写符号
  • Hieroglyphs are carved into the walls of the temple. 寺庙的墙壁上刻着象形文字。 来自辞典例句
  • This paper discusses the fundamental distinctions between the hieroglyphs andforerunner of writing. 英汉象形文字的比较是建立在象形文字具体内涵的基础上。 来自互联网
n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧
  • The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
adj.受人尊敬的v.尊敬( esteem的过去式和过去分词 );敬重;认为;以为
  • The art of conversation is highly esteemed in France. 在法国十分尊重谈话技巧。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He esteemed that he understood what I had said. 他认为已经听懂我说的意思了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
acid flux material
acrylic rubber
anthozoon
Arctic Monkeys
automobile dynamic puality
balsamed
batch bulk
Bathgate
Burgaski Zal.
Carex curta
chamaecephalic
Charlotte County
chord of the eleventh
circle of inversion
coelio
common starlings
contacts resistance
croydens
deck expansion installation
deducement
deoxyribofuranose
diffuse semiplacenta
dimecolin
dindymus rubiginosus
dry-erase board
dunce hats
electron-deficient
enga
EPT,E.P.T.,e.p.t
estudios
fibred asbestos
forgivers
fracture aperture
genus epigaeas
get on nerves
giant radio galaxy
hands-off speed
hexadecimal numbers
Hibernicism
iliad
impact dust collector
infrared and ultraviolet absorption vycor glass
instant center/centre method
intrinsic conductivity
iron billet
jewelled headdresses
jilling off
Kamchiya
lead screw drive
Lebedyan'
Low Middling Spotted
lumen hour
lump-sum budget
marginal import quota
medical processing accelerator
nevoblast
Nienborstel
no-step
oblongifolia
odontoblast cell
oldstyles
osprays
pepper upper
petroleum acne
Phyllagathis ovalifolia
planetary gravitational field
platinum clad anode
pozoes
preliminary audit survey
prt valve
pulse width code
push-pull deflection
reniform ore
Schoengastia
scour finger
securit
ship scrapping facility
skip bar
smalltalks
social acceptance
stone chimes
strengthen management
striae olfactoria intermedia
synparasitism
test piece number
timidity
top of file
tranquilloes
truks
tuning and temperament
turbinate bodies
twenty second
tylotiella pusilla
unconjugated water
unprogrammed balance
vertical zone refining
vollmar
warrant to search a house
wynnes
yield the palm to sb.
yours is to hand