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

令他们高兴的，他们偶然发现了废弃了 700 年的纸莎草的垃圾场。

That's until papyrus scrolls came along.

直到纸莎草卷轴的出现。

Demand for papyrus became feverish, and the price soared.

对纸莎草纸的需求变，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，他们将高贵的腿浸在属于你们的莎草丛生的湖里，现在他们沿着你脚下那岩石嶙峋的堤岸摇着轻舟。

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

“我的消息来源一位曾参与这份手稿工作的莎草纸专家，他的声誉毋庸置疑。”

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

最高的坐落在荒凉、粗糙的碗状物中， 边缘稀疏地长着棕和黄的莎草。

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

包含各种记录的纸莎草纸， 而不仅仅医疗信息，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，而埃及纸莎草纸的出现早于纸。

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的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.

古埃及人首先使用了一种叫做纸莎草的类似纸张的材，这种材纸莎草植物的紧密扁平的茎编织而成。

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

那些持怀疑态度的人还观察到，木乃伊面具合法采购的莎草纸进行洗钱的绝佳方式。

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，这种纸用高大水生莎草科植物的芯或者茎做的。

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，莎草的歌者用他哀伤的音符赞美着什么。

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，罕见的莎草纸文件。

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

目前，博物馆网站上展示的纸莎草纸只有 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，否可以因此出结论，格林家大约拥有 4980 份缺乏可靠来源的纸莎草文献。

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

此产生的碎片几乎无法阅读：在烧焦的纸莎草纸的闪亮黑映衬下，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，全身让那灿烂的光辉给裹了起来，她连衣裙拂过刚刚抽芽的莎草和禾革发出的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.

这里描绘的他的《亡灵之书》中的一个场景，这一本 78 英尺的莎草纸卷轴， 旨在帮助他获永生。

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的古代象形文字如何幸存下来的，以及它如何帮助我们更好地理解法老的奥秘。