I'm not kidding, by the way; a lot of cuneiform is about wheat and goats.

我不是在开玩笑，很字记录的都是关于小麦和山羊的。

The statues, the cuneiform inscriptions now lie in pieces exposed to the elements.

而现在，那些雕像和字铭已经化碎片，暴露在自然界中。

The 2,800-year-old artifact is inscribed with complete cuneiform text, the world's oldest form of writing.

这件有2800年历史的上刻有完整的字，这是世界上最古老的字式。

Texts written on clay tablets using the cuneiform writing common in the area did not report what happened.

用该地区常见的字写在泥板上的字没有报告发生了什么。

After a few hundred years, the early pictogram system called cuneiform turned into a script.

几百年后，称字的早期象字系变成了字。

Many of the artifacts have examples of cuneiform, one of the earliest known systems of writing.

许都有字的例子，字是已知最早的书写系之一。

Ashurbanipal’s library took the form of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform in the languages of Akkadian and Sumerian.

Ashurbanipal 的图书馆采用粘土板的式，上面刻有阿卡德语和苏美尔语的字。

The scribe records the new contract in cuneiform into a wet clay tablet, and the matter is settled.

抄写员用字将新合同记录在湿泥板上，事情就此解决。

The independent invention that we can trace in greatest detail is history's oldest writing system, Sumerian cuneiform (Figure 12.1).

我们可以最详细地追溯的独立发明是历史上最古老的书写系，苏美尔字（图12.1）。

They look to me like a kind of cuneiform character, a good deal altered, but this of course is impossible.

在我看来，它们就像一种字， 经过大量改动， 但这当然是不可能的。

A number of clay tablets have been dug up, inscribed with cuneiform script telling a story very similar to the one in the Bible.

人们在那里也次挖掘出有字的泥板，它们所讲述的故事跟《圣经》里的故事十分相似。

Some newcomers looked up to the Sumerians, adopting their way of life and using the cuneiform script to express their own languages.

一些新来者仰望苏美尔人，采用他们的生活方式，用字来表达自己的语言。

" Out of hundreds of thousands of cuneiform documents, they are the only food recipes that exist" says Agnete Lassen, associate curator of the Yale Babylonian collection.

耶鲁大学巴比伦收藏的副馆长阿格内特·拉森说：“在数十万份字献中，它们是唯一存在的食谱。”

In 2017, for example, a consignment of ancient Iraqi cuneiform tablets they had purchased was found to have been smuggled into the US as " tile samples" .

例如，在 2017 年，他们购买的一批古代伊拉克字片被发现作 “瓷砖样品” 走私进入美国。

Besides Sumerian cuneiform, the other certain instance of independent origins of writing in human history comes from Native American societies of Mesoamerica, probably southern Mexico.

除了苏美尔字外，人类历史上另一个独立的字起源实例来自中美洲的美洲原住民社会，可能是墨西哥南部。

Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform.

在字母字传播之前，大量使用语标的系更常见，包括埃及象字、玛雅字和苏美尔字。

There were two inscriptions; one in the regular cuneiform character, another in the character of the Black Seal, and I realized that my task was accomplished.

有两个铭； 一个是常规字， 另一个是黑印章， 我意识到我的任务已经完成。

The symbols, which we now know as  cuneiform writing, were from not only the first known empire but also one of the  first known civilizations – the Sumerians.

这些符号，也就是我们现在所知的字，不仅来自已知的第一个帝国，也来自最早已知的明之一——苏美尔人。

There are different versions of this story and new cuneiform tablets with previously missing parts of the story are still being discovered, so the story of Gilgamesh hasn't been fully told yet.

这个故事还有不同的版本，并且仍然有新的字板被发现，所以吉尔伽美什的故事还没有被完全讲述。

Mesopotamia gave us writing, specifically a form of writing called cuneiform, which was initially created not to like woo lovers or whatever but to record transactions like how many bushels of wheat were exchanged for how many goats.

美索不达米亚人带给了我们书写，特别是一种叫做字的书写。它们最初的目的不是了记录爱情故事，而是了记录交易，比如少的麦子换了少只羊。