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

他认真地慢慢儿把那些楔的鱼肉条全都吃了。

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，是一面向商业区的大胆悬挑的楔玻璃和钢结构建筑，它反映出他在那里找到的德克萨斯人的骄傲。

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

我不是在开玩笑，很多楔文记录的都是关于小麦和山羊的。

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

几百年後，早期被称为楔文的 象文系统发展成了抽象文。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年历史的文物上刻有完整的楔文，这是世界上最古老的文。

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

他们看到的只是稍微有点像一块木上的楔部分。

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.

这还有不同的版本，并且仍然有新的楔文板被发现，所以吉尔伽美什的还没有被完全讲述。

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.

所以我要切成漂亮的楔，烤好后，可以堆在盘子里，用一些可爱的其他食材装饰。

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.

人们在那里也多次挖掘出有楔文的泥板，它们所讲述的跟《圣经》里的十分相似。

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

根据耶鲁的楔文注释项目，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.

用该地区常见的楔文写在泥板上的文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，他让自己的脑做好了准备，第一次冒险去听摇滚音乐会。这建筑是由一座高楼，一凸出的金塔，还有穿过高楼的一楔建筑组成的。

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，特别是一种叫做楔文的书写。它们最初的目的不是为了记录爱情，而是为了记录交易，比如多少的麦子换了多少只羊。

They were wedge-shaped strips and he cut them from next to the back bone down to the edge of the belly.

这些肉条的断面是楔的，他从脊骨边开始割，直割到肚子边。

A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet. Traffic lights bong-bonged outside on the boulevard, interurban cars pounded by, a typewriter clacked monotonously in the lawyer's office beyond the party wall.

一道楔的阳光从桌边滑过，无声地落在地毯上。外面林荫大道上的红绿灯砰砰作响，城际间的汽车轰轰烈烈地驶过，派对墙外的律师办公室里打机发出单调的咔嗒声。

But, if you have a big wedge, like a semi-soft or a hard cheese, like a Parmesan or a Cheddar, or a Colby, or a Swiss with not too many holes, you can just cut it in half-- - Ew, that's so gross.

但是，如果你有一大的楔奶酪， 比如半软或硬奶酪，如帕尔马干酪或切达干酪， 或科尔比干酪，或没有太多孔的瑞士干酪，你可以将它切成两半 - Ew ，太恶心了。

While some verses from the epic date to circa 2100 BCE, the most recent version of the text, composed in Akkadian cuneiform, an ancient Semitic language of Mesopotamia, dates to the Neo-Assyrian period, 9th to the 6th century BCE.

尽管这部史诗的某些诗句可追溯至约公元前2100年，但文本的最新版本是用阿卡德楔文书写的，这种古闪米特语源自美索不达米亚，其年代则可上溯至新亚述时期，即公元前9世纪至公元前6世纪。

And what they essentially saw was, if we were to consider above the object north, so kind of offset to the north of the object, there was a formation of about somewhere between four and six of these objects.

他们实际上看到的是， 如果我们考虑物体北侧上方，即物体偏北的位置，那里成了一组大约四到六这样的物体， 呈大致的楔排列， 你知道的，就像这样并排排列。

The position of chief critic at the magazine has become vacant, and Vivian is competing for it against a likable colleague whom she describes as having a retina-scarring smile and the aesthetic discernment of a wedge salad.

杂志的首席评论家职位空缺了，薇薇安正在与一位她容为笑容刺眼且审美水平堪比楔沙拉的同竞争这位置。