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

我不是在开玩笑，很多形文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，那些雕像和形文字铭文已经化为碎片，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年历史的文有完整的形文字，这是世界最古老的文字形式。

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

该地区常见的形文字写在泥板的文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，称为形文字的早期象形文字系变成了文字。

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

许多文都有形文字的例子，形文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 的图书馆采粘土板的形式，面有阿卡德语和苏美尔语的形文字。

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

抄写形文字将新合同记录在湿泥板，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最古老的书写系，苏美尔形文字（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，它们就像一种形文字， 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.

人们在那里也多次挖掘出有形文字的泥板，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，采他们的生活方式，形文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：“在数十万份形文字文献中，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形文字片被发现作为 “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.

除了苏美尔形文字外，人类历史另一个独立的文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.

在字母文字传播之前，大量使语标的系更为常见，包括埃及象形文字、玛雅文字和苏美尔形文字。

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.

有两个铭文； 一个是常规形文字， 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形文字，不仅来自已知的第一个帝国，也来自最早已知的文明之一——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，并且仍然有新的形文字板被发现，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，特别是一种叫做形文字的书写。它们最初的目的不是为了记录爱情故事，而是为了记录交易，比如多少的麦子换了多少只羊。