To their delight, they hit upon rubbish dumps in which 700 years' worth of papyrus had been discarded.

令他们高兴是，他们偶然发现了废弃了 700 年纸莎草垃圾场。

That's until papyrus scrolls came along.

直到纸莎草卷轴出现。

Demand for papyrus became feverish, and the price soared.

对纸莎草纸需求变得狂热，价格飙升。

Now they dipped their noble limbs in your sedgy lakes, and now they paddled the light canoe along your rocky shores.

现在，他们将高贵腿浸在属于你们莎草丛生湖里，现在他们沿着你脚下那岩石嶙峋堤岸摇着轻舟。

" My source is a papyrologist who worked on the manuscript, a man whose reputation is unimpeachable."

“我消息来源是一位曾参与这份手稿工作莎草纸专家，他声誉毋庸置疑。”

The highest are set in bleak, rough bowls, scantily fringed with brown and yellow sedges.

最高坐落在荒凉、粗糙碗状物中， 边缘稀疏地长着棕和黄莎草。

Papyri containing all kinds of records, not just medical information, are stored here.

包含各种记录纸莎草纸， 而不仅仅是医疗信息，都存放在这里。

More than 2000 years ago, China invented paper as a writing surface, which was itself predated by Egyptian papyrus.

2000 多年前， 中国发明了纸作为书写表面，而埃及纸莎草纸出现早于纸。

Egyptians made a kind of heavy paper, from papyrus plants along the banks of the Nile.

埃及人用尼罗河沿岸纸莎草纸制造了一种厚纸。

It was the ancient Egyptians who first used a paper-like material called papyrus that was made by weaving tight flattened stems of the papyrus plant.

是古埃及人首先使用了一种叫做纸莎草类似纸张材料，这种材料是由纸莎草植物紧密扁平织而成。

Those with a cynical cast of mind also observed that mummy masks were a great way to launder illegally procured papyri.

那些持怀疑态度人还观察到，木乃伊面具是合法采购莎草纸进行洗钱绝佳方式。

The Egyptians wrote on papyrus, a kind of paper made from the pith or the stems of tall aquatic cyperaceous plants.

埃及人用纸莎草写字，这种纸是用高大水生莎草科植物芯或者做。

She now knew what the nightingale was sighing the livelong night, what the songster of the sedges hymned with his plaintive note.

她现在知道夜莺在长夜里叹息着什么，莎草歌者用他哀伤音符赞美着什么。

Israel has managed to retrieve a rare papyrus document of about 2,600 years old from its private owner in the U. S.

以列成功地从美国私人手中取回了一份大约有着 2600 年历史，罕见莎草纸文件。

At present, just over 20 papyri are displayed on the museum's website, out of 5,000.

目前，博物馆网站上展示纸莎草纸只有 20 多张，总数有 5000 张。

I asked Holmes whether one can therefore conclude that the Greens own around 4,980 papyri that lack reliable provenance.

我问霍姆斯，是否可以因此得出结论，格林家大约拥有 4980 份缺乏可靠来源纸莎草文献。

And the resulting fragments were almost impossible to read: charcoal-based ink is hard to see against the shiny black of charred papyrus.

由此产生碎片几乎无法阅读：在烧焦纸莎草纸闪亮黑映衬下，木炭墨水很难看清。

The luminous rays wrapped her up with her increasing distance, and the rustle of her dress over the sprouting sedge and grass died away.

她越走越远，全身让那灿烂光辉给裹了起来，她连衣裙拂过刚刚抽芽莎草和禾革发出沙沙声响也逐渐消失了。

And depicted here is a scene from his Book of the Dead, a 78-foot papyrus scroll designed to help him attain immortality.

这里描绘是他《亡灵之书》中一个场景，这是一本 78 英尺莎草纸卷轴， 旨在帮助他获得永生。

She explained how lots of ancient hieroglyphic writing on papyrus survives, and how it helps us better understand the mysteries of the pharaohs.

她解释了许多关于纸莎草纸古代象形文字是如何幸存下来，以及它如何帮助我们更好地理解法老奥秘。