sumerian cuneiform

基本解釋

Our oldest dream story, inscribed in cuneiform millennia ago, tells of the Sumerian shepherd king Dumuzi.
最古老的關(guān)于夢的傳說，記載于數(shù)千年前的楔形文字上（如果照后面的國王Dumuzi的時間來看，應該是公元前2600年左右——譯者注），講述蘇美爾牧羊國王Dumuzi。
The first true writing we know of is Sumerian cuneiform- consisting mainly of wedge-shaped impressions on clay tablets - whichwas used more than 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia.
楔形文字是世界上已知最古老的文字。這是一種刻在陶片上的文字，它的使用者是5000多年以前生活在美索不達米亞平原上的人們。
Scholars have deciphered other ancient languages, such as Sumerian and Babylonian, which used the cuneiform script, thanks to the fortuitous discovery of bilingual inscriptions.
譯由于偶然發(fā)現(xiàn)了雙語碑文，學者們已經(jīng)破譯了其他的遠古語言，如楔形文字的閃族語和巴比倫語。