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
9-octadecenamide
A. C. T.
acclivitous column
aceae
achillo-
achillodynia
ad nauseam
agrimonia proceras
aided design
air conditioning installation
Antofagasta, L.de
arsenophosphotungstic reagent
automixis
baby crazy
backwash water
bacteria contamination
biam
bidirectional shift register
blistered
cadmium sulfide ceramics
circularity index
clogaus
co operative management
committed information rate
committee on accounting procedure of aicpa
competitive crops
composite articulation
computer software programs
Cribrosa
cryoalgae
Dagestanskiy Zapovednik
diaphragm cylinder
Didachist
disciplinarian
duplex film
emigration officer
Encinas de Esgueva
end of transmission block
exchange of money
export and import licensing system
fast direction
federal question jurisdiction
floating system
Forcados River
generation rent
genus Nyctereutes
german-american
glycydonta marica
grabars
gravicembaloes
guilmette
gypseus
haversed sine
helium blow-off
heteropterous insect
hot dates
hot water pump
II Thessalonians
indirigible
information room
infringement
Institutional School
isinglass gold-size
JITT
knowledge processing system
lend lease
lophopterygella camelina
marginal spring
material fertile
mercads
mobile computer
non-Euclidean plane
nonpurgeable
oilskin
ordering point
outside breaking curve
Paluan
PINO (positive-input negative-output)
plycondensation
poikilitic
Protective Stop
revenues from monopoly
roberts
scientific spirit
scowls
slip rail
strong connection
sword belt
table title
thumb-rope
trachytoid texture
trapping theory
typhlotomy
uncharismatically
upright fold
Urnasch
Urodin
waste steam
weighing transducer
well-readied
Whedonian
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