1.The Minoan civilization was very developed.

米诺斯明非常发达。

2.Crete's Minoan civilization is famous for its complex palaces, colorful art, and mysterious writing system.

克里特岛米诺斯明以其复杂宫殿、丰富多彩艺术和神字系统而闻。

3.Greece's Culture Ministry said recently that the structure is unlike any other from Crete's ancient Minoan civilization.

希腊化部最近表示，这座建筑克里特岛古代米诺斯明中任何其他建筑都不同。

4.They're very much like the iconography that you find in Minoan Crete.

它们拥有和你在克里特岛上发现米诺斯时期人造品相似艺术构成。

5.It's now one of the highlights of the British Museum's Minoan collection.

它现在是大英博物馆克里特明集合一个亮点。

6.Among island empires, why did writing arise in Minoan Crete but not in Polynesian Tonga?

在岛屿帝国中，什么字出现在米诺斯克里特岛而不是波利尼西亚汤加？机翻

7.Evans's interpretations of these engravings eventually led him to find the Minoan palace at Knossos (Knos6s) , on the island of Crete, in 1900.

埃斯对这些雕刻进行解读，最终于 1900 年在克里特岛克诺索斯遗址找到了米斯诺王宫。

8.The Minoan culture produced mead and credited it to their mother goddess Potnia, whose priestesses were named Melissa meaning bee.

米诺斯化生产蜂蜜酒并将其归功于他们母神波特尼亚，其女祭司被梅丽莎， 意思是蜜蜂。机翻

9.In a domino effect, Ventris unraveled Linear B, with each word revealing more clearly that the language of Linear B was not Minoan, but Greek.

如多米诺骨牌一般，特里斯环环相扣地破译了线形字 B，每个词都愈发清晰地表明线形字 B并不是米诺斯语，而是希腊语。

10.He thought the script, dubbed Linear B, represented the Minoan language, and scholars all over the world came up with their own theories.

他猜想这种被称作 “线形字 B” 本代表了米诺斯明语言，而全世界学者则众说纷纭。

11.But the discovery that Linear B represented Greek, and not Minoan, showed that the opposite had happened: mainland Greeks invaded Crete and adopted the Minoan script for their own language.

但线形字 B 属于希腊语，而非米诺斯语这一发现揭示了事实恰恰相反：大陆上希腊人入侵了克里特岛，并借用了米诺斯字作自己语言。

12.The small bronze statuette from Minoan Crete, unique as it is, is also a very good indicator of this key commodity, bronze, that was sought after throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

克里特这尊青铜小雕像是件很好证物，让我们了解青铜是当时整个地中海东部地区需求巨大重要商品。

13.The explosion was so powerful that it wrecked Santorini's ancient city of Akrotiri and dealt a fatal blow to the seafaring Minoan civilization, which had settled on the island at the time.

这场爆炸威力巨大，以至于摧毁了圣托里尼古城阿克罗蒂里，并对定居岛上海洋明米诺斯王国造成致打击。

14.For the same reason, we can be sure that the Linear B syllabary of Mycenaean Greece had been adapted by around 1400 B.C.from the Linear A syllabary of Minoan Crete.

出于同样原因，我们可以肯定，希腊迈锡尼线性 B 音表在公元前 1400 年左右就已经从克里特岛米诺斯线性 A 音表改编而来。机翻

15.CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY'SMOTHER ONJULY3, 1908, ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATING THEancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, chanced upon one of the most remarkable objects in the history of technology.

第十三章 必要性窒息 1908 年 7 月 3 日，考古学家在克里特岛费斯托斯挖掘古代米诺斯宫殿时，偶然发现了技术史上最引人注目物品之一。机翻

16.From Greece: Archaeologists uncovered gold, jewels and beads in a large building on the now uninhabited Minoan island of Chrysi, a location that about 3,500 years ago was devoted to making purple dye from sea snails called Murex.

来自希腊：考古学家在现在无人居住克里西米诺斯岛上一座大型建筑中发现了黄金、珠宝和珠子，大约 3500 年前，这里专门用于从 Murex 海蜗牛中制造紫色染料。机翻