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

这件有2800年历史文物上刻有完整楔文字，这是世界上最古老文字式。

His brows knit together into a wedge-like furrow, and with a twitch of pain he bit his underlip.

他眉毛皱成一道楔皱纹，他痛得抽搐了一下下唇。

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

我不是在开玩笑，很多楔文字记录都是关于小麦和山羊。

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

用该地区常见楔文字写在泥板上文字没有报告发生了什么。

Or, you could figure out the volume of a cone, followed by a wedge.

或者，您可以计算出圆锥体和楔体体积。

Because it's a tart and I would normally serve a tart in wedges, why not serve a brownie in wedges?

因为它是一个，我通常会供一个楔，为什么不供一个楔仁巧克力呢？

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

几百年后，称为楔文字早期象文字系统变成了文字。

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

根据耶鲁楔文字注释项目，美索不达米亚有三种类型图书馆：寺庙、宫殿和私人图书馆。

Many of the artifacts have examples of cuneiform, one of the earliest known systems of writing.

许多文物都有楔文字例子，楔文字是已知最早书写系统之一。

Wedged sandals in the 1940s were not quite as high and likely not made of patent leather.

1940 年代楔凉鞋没有那么高，很可能不是由漆皮制成。

As I watched, she pulled out an untidy wedge of fifty-dollar bills as fat as her arm.

在我注视下，她从里面抽出一张凌乱楔五十美元钞票， 和她手臂一样粗。

Ashurbanipal’s library took the form of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform in the languages of Akkadian and Sumerian.

Ashurbanipal 图书馆采用粘土板式，上面刻有阿卡德语和苏美尔语楔文字。

They came in a hissing wedge, robes whipping in the wind as they cut through the melee on the plain.

他们以嘶嘶作响楔前进，长袍在穿过平原上混战时在风中飘扬。

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

人们在那里也多次挖掘出有楔文字泥板，它们所讲述故事跟《圣经》里故事十分相似。

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市政厅，是一个面向商业区大胆悬挑楔玻璃和钢结构建筑，它反映出他在那里找到德克萨斯人骄傲。

He stared down through smoke bushes and weeds into a wedged slab sand-surface of moonlight inhabited by an up-hop, jump, pop-hopof tiny motion.

他透过浓烟灌木丛和杂草向下凝视，看到月光下楔平板沙地表面，上面有向上跳跃、跳跃、砰砰作响微小动作。

So I'm gonna do nice wedges that could then, once they're roasted, be stacked up on a plate and dressed with some lovely other ingredients.

所以我要切成漂亮楔，烤好后，可以堆在盘子里，用一些可爱其他食材装饰。

The symbols, which we now know as  cuneiform writing, were from not only the first known empire but also one of the  first known civilizations – the Sumerians.

这些符号，也就是我们现在所知楔文字，不仅来自已知第一个帝国，也来自最早已知文明之一——苏美尔人。

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.

这个故事还有不同版本，并且仍然有新楔文字板被发现，所以吉尔伽美什故事还没有被完全讲述。

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.

为了设计克利夫兰摇滚名人堂建筑，他让自己头脑做好了准备，第一次冒险去听摇滚音乐会。这个建筑是由一座高楼，一个凸出金字塔，还有穿过高楼一个楔建筑组成。