Some used a form of picture writing called hieroglyphics.

些族群使用图形进行书写被称作象形文字。

Just like emojis and hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, Chinese doesn't use an alphabet based on sounds, but symbols denoting meaning.

就像情符号和古埃及的象形文字样，汉语不使用基于声音的字母，而是使用示意义的符号。

It wasn't anything like as easy for the ancient Egyptians with their hieroglyphs.

古埃及人的象形文字可没有这么简单。

This meant that the Egyptians had thousands of different hieroglyphs representing all sorts of things.

这就意味着埃及人有成千上万不同的象形文字，各种事物。

But everybody was stuck. A brilliant English physicist and polymath, Thomas Young, correctly worked out that a group of hieroglyphs repeated several times on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name-that of Ptolemy.

但没人取得任何进展。直到位聪颖博学的英国学者托马斯杨发现，组在石碑上反复出现的象形文字姓氏的发音—托勒密。

In another portion of Chaco Canyon, a pictograph high on an overhang has been interpreted as marking a supernova explosion in 1054.

在查科峡谷另处，悬崖高处的象形文字经翻译后被解读为记录1054年发生的超新星爆炸事件。

The minutely detailed embroidery on his jacket can be read just like hieroglyphics.

他的外套上的精细刺绣可以当作象形文字阅读。

They gained immortality in frescos, hieroglyphs, statues, and even tombs, mummified alongside their owners.

它们被塑造成不朽的壁画、象形文字、雕像、甚至还有墓地，和他们的主人起成为木乃伊。

Emoji is actually a Japanese word that means " pictogram" or " pictograph."

“emoji”实际上是日语词汇“絵文字”，意为“图案文字”或“象形文字”。

The deer glyph came from the same Las Pinturas pyramid.

鹿的象形文字来自同拉斯皮图拉斯金字塔。

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

几百年後，早期被称为楔形文字的 象形文字系统发展成抽象文字。苏美人起草第部成文律法。

The hieroglyph for music is heset, and means a " song" , " singer" , " musician" , " conductor" and " to play music" , with the meaning in a particular instance being informed by the context.

音乐的象形文字是 heset，意思是“歌曲”、“歌手”、“音乐家”、“指挥”和“演奏音乐”，在特定情况下的含义由上下文决定。

The species' scientific name 'hieroglyphica' refers to the striking geometric lines and shapes on its fore wings, while its common name was inspired by the blotches, strips, and dots of color that hint at the work of a talented painter.

该物种的学名“象形文字”指的是它前翼上引人注目的几何线条和形状，而它的通用名称则是受暗示天才画家作品的斑点、条纹和色点的启发。

When Emperor Theodosius abolished all non-Christian temples in 391, the use of hieroglyphs virtually ended, with the last known inscription dating a mere 3 years later.

公元391年，狄奥多西皇帝废除所有非基督教的神庙，象形文字的使用实际上就此终结，最后已知的铭文仅在此后3年出现。

Early alphabets that used such shapes allowed more people to read, and let them read faster, eventually replacing cumbersome pictographic writing systems like Egyptian hieroglyphics.

使用这种形状的早期字母让更多的人能够阅读，让他们阅读得更快，最终取像埃及象形文字这样繁琐的象形文字系统。

But in this particular case, Nesyamun, the hieroglyphics shown on the right there, in English, that hieroglyphic means true of voice.

但在这特殊案例中，纳西亚蒙，也就是右图上的象形文字，把这象形文字翻译为英文，意思是真实的声音。

About a year after Miss Matty set up shop, I received one of Martha's hieroglyphics, begging me to come to Cranford very soon.

大约在马蒂小姐开店年后，我收到玛莎的封象形文字信，恳求我尽快去克兰福德。

Doctors are famous for writing prescriptions that look like gobbledygook or ancient hieroglyphics.

医生的处方笔记看起来像天书，或是古的象形文字。

Some of the heiroglyphs represented words, while others represented syllables that could be combined to spell out words and write sentences.

有些象形文字就字，但其他的则示能够组合在起拼写成字和句子的音节。

The Rosetta Stone is one of the most important archeological discoveries, because it led to the cracking of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

罗塞塔石碑是最重要的考古发现之，因为它使得埃及象形文字被破解。