| 单词 | 象形文字 |
| 释义 | 〔pictograph〕A picture representing a word or idea; a hieroglyph.象形文字：代表一个字或意义的图画；象形符号〔Phoenicia〕An ancient maritime country of southwest Asia consisting of city-states along the eastern Mediterranean Sea in present-day Syria and Lebanon. Its people became the foremost navigators and traders of the Mediterranean by 1250b.c. and established numerous colonies, including Carthage in northern Africa. The Phoenicians traveled to the edges of the known world at the time and introduced their alphabet, based on symbols for sounds rather than cuneiform or hieroglyphic representations, to the Greeks and other early peoples. Phoenicia's culture was gradually absorbed by Persian and later Hellenistic civilizations. 腓尼基：亚洲西南部的一个古代海边国家，由地中海东部沿岸的城邦组成，位于今叙利亚和黎巴嫩境内。直到公元前 1250年，腓尼基人一直是地中海地区最闻名的航海家和商人，并建立了许多殖民地，包括北非的迦太基。腓尼基人到过当时所知的世界边缘，他们把基于声音符号而不是楔形或象形文字的字母表，介绍给希腊人和其他早期民族。腓尼基文化逐步地被波斯文化和后来的古希腊文化所吸收 〔cartouche〕An oval or oblong figure in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics that encloses characters expressing the names or epithets of royal or divine personages.漩涡花饰牌匾：古埃及象形文字中的一种椭圆形或长方形造型，里面圈有表示皇族或神职人员名字或标号的字母〔Sumer〕An ancient country of southern Mesopotamia in present-day southern Iraq. Archaeological evidence dates the beginnings of Sumer to the fifth millenniumb.c. By 3000 a flourishing civilization existed, which gradually exerted power over the surrounding area and culminated in the Akkadian dynasty founded (c. 2340) by Sargon I. Sumer declined after 2000 and was later absorbed by Babylonia and Assyria. The Sumerians are believed to have invented the cuneiform system of writing. 苏美尔：美索不达米亚平南部一古国，位于今伊拉克南部。据考古学的证据显示，苏美尔的建立可追溯到公元前 五千年，到公元前3000年，就已出现了繁荣的文明，它逐渐地影响并控制了周围的地区，到萨尔贡世建立的古阿卡德王朝时（前2340年）、文明达到顶峰的公元前2000年前后，苏美尔开始衰落，后来被巴比伦和亚述吞并，人们相信苏美尔人发明了象形文字 〔hieroglyphic〕Of, relating to, or being a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.象形文字的：与一种文字书写体系有关的，例如古埃及的书写体系是用图画符号来表示意义的声音，或者意与音的结合〔Maya〕A member of a Mesoamerican Indian people inhabiting southeast Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, whose civilization reached its height arounda.d. 300-900. The Maya are noted for their architecture and city planning, their mathematics and calendar, and their hieroglyphic writing system. 马雅人：中美洲印第安人，居住在墨西哥的东南部、危地马拉和伯利兹，其文明在大约公元 300年-900年发展到最高点。马雅人以其建筑、城市规划、数学、历法和象形文字著称 〔demotic〕Of, relating to, or written in the simplified form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.（古埃及）通俗文字的：古埃及象形文字的简单书写体的，或与之有关的，或用之书写的〔Palenque〕An ancient Mayan city of southern Mexico southeast of Villahermosa. The Temple of Inscriptions is noted for its hieroglyphic tablets.帕伦克：墨西哥南部的古代玛雅城市，位于东南。其神庙的铭文以其象形文字的碑文著称〔Champollion〕French Egyptologist. Working from the Rosetta stone, he became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1821).商博良，简·弗朗索瓦：(1790-1832) 法国埃及学家。他根据罗塞塔石碑铭于1821年第一个译解了埃及象形文字〔hieroglyphic〕Often hieroglyphics (used with a sing. or pl. verb)Hieroglyphic writing, especially that of the ancient Egyptians. 常作 hieroglyphics （与单数或复数动词连用）象形文字书写体系，特指古埃及人的图形手写文字〔hieroglyph〕Something that suggests a hieroglyph.类似象形文字的事物〔Young〕British physician, physicist, and Egyptologist who revived the wave theory of light and postulated the three-color theory of color vision. He also helped decipher the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone.扬，托马斯：(1773-1829) 英国医生、物理学家和埃及古文物学家，他复兴了光波理论并假定了色彩显示三色理论的存在。他还帮助破译了罗塞塔石碑上的象形文字〔hieroglyphic〕Something, such as illegible or undecipherable writing, that is felt to resemble a hieroglyph.难辨别的书写，象是用象形文字写的〔hieroglyph〕A picture or symbol used in hieroglyphic writing.象形文字：象形文字书写体系中所使用的图画或符号 |
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