Some used a form of picture writing called hieroglyphics.

一些族群使用图形进行书写称作象形文。

The mystery of why there were two coffins was solved relatively easily when archaeologists translated the hieroglyphics.

当考古学家翻译这些象形文时，为什么有两具棺材的谜团就相对容易地解开了。

The minutely detailed embroidery on his jacket can be read just like hieroglyphics.

他的外套上的精细刺绣可以当作象形文阅读。

Doctors are famous for writing prescriptions that look like gobbledygook or ancient hieroglyphics.

医生的处方笔记看起来像天书，或是古代的象形文。

The Rosetta Stone is one of the most important archeological discoveries, because it led to the cracking of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

罗塞塔石碑是最重要的考古发现之一，因为它使得埃及象形文解。

Any doctor here will tell you, indecipherable hieroglyphics may actually be a career booster.

这里的任何医生都会告诉你， 以辨认的象形文实际上可能是职业的助推。

But in this particular case, Nesyamun, the hieroglyphics shown on the right there, in English, that hieroglyphic means true of voice.

但在这个特殊案例中，纳西亚蒙，也就是右图上的象形文，把这象形文翻译为英文，意思是真实的声音。

The ancient Egyptians wrote using a kind of alphabet called hieroglyphics, which were single pictures that represented entire words or ideas.

古埃及人使用一种叫做象形文的母进行书写，这种母是代表完整的语言或想法的一张图片。

At the top, it's in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, in the middle, it's in demotic, and at the bottom, it's in Greek.

顶部是古埃及的象形文，中间是通俗文，底部是希腊文。

They have, as you are aware, many hieroglyphics which they use in communicating with one another.

如您所知，他们有许多象形文， 用于相互交流。

And I had these folders open in front of me with this, you know, hieroglyphics -- let's be honest.

我让这些文件夹在我面前打开，你知道， 象形文——老实说。

I learned to navigate in two days -- and this is someone who hates numbers and sees them as hieroglyphics.

我在两天内学会了导航——这是一个讨厌数并将它们视为象形文的人。

Its entire surface is still covered with glacial hieroglyphics whose interpretation is the reward of all who devoutly study them.

它的整个表面仍然覆盖着冰川象形文，其解释是所有虔诚研究它们的人的回报。

It's more that I've got this ever-evolving language of hieroglyphics that I've developed and can understand fluently and think deeply with.

更重要的是，我掌握了这种不断发展的象形文语言，我已经开发了它，并且可以流利地理解它并进行深入思考。

Early alphabets that used such shapes allowed more people to read, and let them read faster, eventually replacing cumbersome pictographic writing systems like Egyptian hieroglyphics.

使用这种形状的早期母让更多的人能够阅读，让他们阅读得更快，最终取代了像埃及象形文这样繁琐的象形文系统。

It was, indeed, a majestic idea, that the destiny of nations should be revealed, in these awful hieroglyphics, on the cope of heaven.

确实，一个伟大的想法是，国家的命运应该在这些可怕的象形文中，在天堂的顶部揭示。

Farther on are doors studded with enormous nails, where the genius of our forefathers has traced domestic hieroglyphics, of which the meaning is now lost forever.

更远的地方是镶嵌着巨大钉子的门，我们祖先的天才在这里描绘了国内的象形文，其意义现在已经永远消失了。

An immediate interest kindled within me for the unknown Catherine, and I began forthwith to decipher her faded hieroglyphics.

我对于这位素昧平生的凯瑟琳顿时发生兴趣，我便开始辨认她那已褪色的认的怪了。

The trafficking of great apes is nothing new. Apes are found in Egyptian hieroglyphics and they were valued even in the days of King Solomon.

贩运类人猿并不是什么新鲜事。埃及象形文中发现了猿，即使在所罗门王时代，它们也受到重视。

I apply myself to decipher those hieroglyphics which the Egyptians used to inscribe in the temples of their gods and on the graves of their priests.

我致力于译埃及人用来刻在他们的神庙和祭司坟墓上的那些象形文。