Slowly and conscientiously he ate all of the wedge-shaped strips of fish.

认真地慢慢儿把那些楔形的鱼肉条全都吃了。

His CityHall in Dallas, a boldly cantilevered wedge of glass and steel facing the commercial district, reflected the vaunting Texan pride he found there.

贝聿铭为达拉斯设计的市政厅，是一个面向商业区的大胆悬挑的楔形玻璃和钢结构建筑，它反映那里找到的德克萨斯人的骄傲。

The brined cheese is often served in wedges.

这种卤制奶酪通常切成楔形食用。

So there's a kind of wedge shape with regard to the instruments too.

就是说乐器的使用方面也存一种楔形模式。

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

我不是开玩笑，很多楔形文字记录的都是关于小麦和山羊的。

Each of those wedges are several layers of high explosive.

每一个楔形物都是几层性炸药。

Okay. So I want these now cut into wedges.

好的。现我要把它们切成楔形。

The statues, the cuneiform inscriptions now lie in pieces exposed to the elements.

而现，那些雕像和楔形文字铭文已经化为碎片，暴露自然界中。

After a few hundred years, the early pictogram system called cuneiform turned into a script.

几百後，早期被称为楔形文字的 象形文字系统发展成了抽象文字。苏美人起草了第一部成文律法。

The 2,800-year-old artifact is inscribed with complete cuneiform text, the world's oldest form of writing.

这件有2800历史的文物上刻有完整的楔形文字，这是世界上最古老的文字形式。

They saw it slightly, you know, like a wedge off a piece of wood.

们看到的只是稍微有点像一块木头上的楔形部分。

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，并且仍然有新的楔形文字板被发现，所以吉尔伽美什的故事还没有被完全讲述。

" 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：“数十万份楔形文字文献中，它们是唯一存的食谱。”

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， 2017 ，们购买的一批古代伊拉克楔形文字片被发现作为 “瓷砖样品” 走私进入美国。

The sharp end and pointy side is for breaking rocks and the other end has a flat and wedge-shaped blade for chipping away smaller pieces.

尖锐的一端和尖侧用于打破岩石，另一端则是扁平的楔形刀片，用于削去较小的石块。

A number of clay tablets have been dug up, inscribed with cuneiform script telling a story very similar to the one in the Bible.

人们那里也多次挖掘有楔形文字的泥板，它们所讲述的故事跟《圣经》里的故事十分相似。

According to Yale's Cuneiform Commentaries Project, Mesopotamia had three types of libraries: temple, palace and private.

根据耶鲁的楔形文字注释项目，美索不达米亚有三种类型的图书馆：寺庙、宫殿和私人图书馆。

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

用该地区常见的楔形文字写泥板上的文字没有报告发生了什么。

For the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, a tower with a pyramid protruding and a wedge driven through it, he prepared his mind by venturing, for the first time, to rock concerts.

为了设计克利夫兰的摇滚名人堂建筑，让自己的头脑做好了准备，第一次冒险去听摇滚音乐会。这个建筑是由一座高楼，一个凸的金字塔，还有穿过高楼的一个楔形建筑组成的。

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，特别是一种叫做楔形文字的书写。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。