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。

The hieroglyphic code was finally cracked by Jean-Fran? ois Champollion – a prodigy or young person with a great natural talent.

这个象形文字的密码最被让-弗朗索瓦·商博良破解了，他是个奇才或天赋异禀的年轻。

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，狄奥多西皇帝废除了所有非基督教的神庙，象形文字的使用实际上就此结，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够阅读，让他们阅读得更快，最取代了像埃及象形文字这样繁琐的象形文字系统。

The ancient Egyptians wrote using a kind of alphabet called hieroglyphics, which were single pictures that represented entire words or ideas.

古埃及使用种叫做象形文字的字母进行书写，这种字母是代表完整的语言或想法的张图片。

We've already talked about a sandal label of an Egyptian pharaoh that had early writing on it, in hieroglyphs.

我们已经谈到埃及法老早期以象形文字做成的凉鞋标签。

The innovation of the hieroglyphic writing system and the emergence of Memphis as the new seat of power.

象形文字系统的革新以及孟菲斯市作为新的权力中心的出现。

In the end, it was a young Frenchman named Jean-Fran? ois Champollion who became the first person to understand hieroglyphs since the ancient Egyptians themselves, nearly two thousand years earlier.

最，名叫让-弗朗索瓦·商博良的年轻法国成为了自近两千年前古埃及以来第个了解象形文字的。

By the time of the Rosetta Stone, 196 BC, hieroglyphs were no longer in general use, they were used and understood only by the priests in the temples.

在罗塞塔石碑制作的时期，象形文字的使用已大幅减少，只有神庙里的祭司才会用。

Another frustrating practice of the Ancient Egyptians was to be wildly inconsistent with the way they wrote down hieroglyphs.

古埃及另个令沮丧的做法是，他们书写象形文字的方式极其不统。

The meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs remained a mystery until 1799 when Napoleon's soldiers unearthed a dark, damaged rock in the Egyptian coastal town of Rosetta.

埃及象形文字的含义直到1799年直是个谜，拿破仑的士兵在埃及海岸城镇罗塞塔挖掘出块黑色的破损岩石。

This hieroglyphic text translates to “Half as Interesting, ” but not literally.

这个象形文字的文本翻译成“半有趣” ，但不是字面意思。

They wrote hieroglyphic inscriptions saying, you know, I was sent to get these obelisks.

他们刻下了象形文字的铭文，内容大概是：“我被派遣来获取这些方尖碑。”

Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses?

难道不朽的物理学家和象形文字的解释者没有写过可恶的诗句吗？

Some were transformed into Christian  churches, while others were simply abandoned, left to be buried by  the sands of time. And with their demise, the knowledge of the hieroglyphic  writing system was lost to all.

有些被改造成基督教教堂， 而另些则被遗弃，被时间的沙子掩埋。 随着他们的消亡，象形文字书写系统的知识也随之消失。

The maddening thing about these guys, and also the decipherers of hieroglyphs, Champollion being the most well-known of those, is that they did not write about their methodology most of the time.

这些解密者最让抓狂的地方，包括象形文字的解读者，如广为知的商博良，就是他们大多数时候都没有记录下他们的解密方法。

I have ransacked many mysteries, I have discovered the reason of many natural laws, the purport of some divine hieroglyphics; of the meaning of this dark secret I know nothing.

我探索过许多谜团， 发现了许多自然法则的原因， 发现了些神圣象形文字的要旨； 我对这个黑暗秘密的意义无所知。

The Great Spirit sent Nana Bozo to teach the Ojibwa the names of the plants and animals and show them how to fish and use hieroglyphics.

伟大的神灵派遣纳纳·博佐教导奥吉布瓦识别植物与动物的名称，并展示给他们捕鱼技巧以及象形文字的使用方法。

It's like some guy who wrote this down 200 years ago in hieroglyphics, and I'm able to decipher it and then bring it to life.

这就像有些家伙两百年前用象形文字写下的东西，我够破译并将其呈现出来。

You know those ones where they kind of like the little logographs where they forecast where the stock or the crypto is going to go.

你知道那些类似小象形文字的，用来预测股票或加密货币走势的图表吗？