Some used a form of picture writing called hieroglyphics.

一些族群使用图形写被称作象形文字。

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

他的外套上的精细刺绣作象形文字阅读。

The hieroglyphic code was finally cracked by Jean-Fran? ois Champollion – a prodigy or young person with a great natural talent.

这个象形文字的密码最终被让-弗朗索瓦·商博良破解了，他是一个奇才或天赋异禀的年轻人。

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字，把这象形文字翻译为英文，意思是真实的声音。

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字母让更多的人能阅读，让他们阅读得更快，最终取代了像埃及象形文字这样繁琐的象形文字系统。

About a year after Miss Matty set up shop, I received one of Martha's hieroglyphics, begging me to come to Cranford very soon.

大约在马蒂小姐开店一年后，我收到了玛莎的一封象形文字信，恳求我尽快去克兰福德。

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，或是古代的象形文字。

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字的字母写，这种字母是代表完整的语言或想法的一张图片。

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字被破解。

Ancient Egyptians even had a hieroglyphic symbol for meteoric iron, which translates literally to " metal of the sky."

古埃及人甚至有一个象形文字符号代表陨铁，字面意思是“来自天空的金属”。

In the left-hand corner is a curious hieroglyphic like four crosses in a line with their arms touching.

纸的左上角有一个有神秘意味的怪字，象四个联接的十字形。

The innovation of the hieroglyphic writing system and the emergence of Memphis as the new seat of power.

象形文字系统的革新及孟菲斯市作为新的权力中心的出现。

The structure, known as the Southern Tomb, includes a labyrinth of corridors, decorated with hieroglyphic carvings and tiles.

这座被称为“南部墓室”的建筑包括迷宫般的走廊，上面装饰着象形雕刻和瓦片。

But near the instep there is a small circular wafer of paper with the shopman's hieroglyphics upon it.

是鞋面上有个小圆纸起，上面写着店员的代号。

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

考古学家翻译这些象形文字时，为什么有两具棺材的谜团就相对容易地解开了。

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字，中间是通俗文字，底部是希腊文字。

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， 难辨认的象形文字实际上能是职业的助推器。

This hieroglyphic text translates to “Half as Interesting, ” but not literally.

这个象形文字的文本翻译成“一半有趣” ，但不是字面意思。

Oh, you mean like hieroglyphics and like monuments?

哦，你是说像象形文字和纪念碑那样的东西吗？

After the Spanish arrived in the early 16th century, they burned Maya hieroglyphic books.

16世纪初西班牙人到达后，他们焚烧了玛雅象形文字籍。