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鸡爪印是楔形文字。 The chicken scratch is cuneiform. | ||
楔形文字是苏美尔人的一大发明。 The cuneiform script is a great invention by the Sumerians. | ||
她用楔形文字写下了献给神祇的颂歌。 She wrote hymns to the gods in cuneiform. | ||
波斯文化受两河流域文化影响，使用楔形文字。 Persian culture by the cultural impact of Mesopotamia, the use of cuneiform. | ||
加之楔形文字又是一种表意文字，几个符号组合起来就形成一个新解释。 In addition, Cuneiform is also a kind of ideographic characters, the combination of several symbols could show out a new meaning. | ||
代数学,据约翰·德比夏尔所说,可以追溯到古巴比伦人留在楔形文字石碑上的简单的代数问题. THE roots of algebra, asJohn Derbyshire tells us, go back to the ancient world: the Babylonians leftcuneiform tablets showing simple algebraic problems. | ||
根据楔形文字，苏美尔人发现了上帝的古怪行为，必须在沙漠中先造出两个人他才能开始创造。 According to the cuneiform tablets, Sumerians found God's most puzzling act to be the creation from dust of the first two human beings. | ||
译由于偶然发现了双语碑文，学者们已经破译了其他的远古语言，如楔形文字的闪族语和巴比伦语。 Scholars have deciphered other ancient languages, such as Sumerian and Babylonian, which used the cuneiform script, thanks to the fortuitous discovery of bilingual inscriptions. | ||
