papyrus

1 “Only an old papyrus cutter I chanced upon in the reeds, with his donkey.”

2 They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey.

26我的日子过去如快船, 如急落抓食的鹰.

3 Nevertheless, on a papyrus dated five years before her death, the queen is referred to as Cleopatra Philopatris, “she who loves her country.”

4 Papyrus makes everything you type look like it was written in Ancient Greece!, albeit by a ROBOT FROM THE FUTURE.

每个你用Payrus键入的字看起来都像古希腊语——尽管像是由一个“未来机器人”写下来的。

5 At a place where the undergrowth ended and the papyrus began—the water’s edge in winter, now a stretch of mud—he stopped beside a spreading patch of some low, green plant.

6 The papyrus plant was also the symbol of Lower Egypt.

纸草也是下埃及的象征物。

7 The Herculaneum scrolls are hundreds of papyri that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

8 The Egyptians wrote on papyrus.

埃及人书写用薄草纸.

9 Phormium and Papyrus planted in front of a translucent glass privacy fence cast ever-changing shadows for a touch of drama.

新西兰麻和纸莎草种植在半透明的玻璃栅栏前，投下不断变化的光影，些许戏剧上演的感觉。

10 Numbly he walked down familiar streets, past the papyrus marsh, past the beginning of the wharves.

11 That means an X-ray takes a tiny bit longer to traverse a part of a papyrus that has ink on it than one that does not.

这意味着相比纸莎草纸没有有墨水的地方，X射线需要花更多时间穿越有字迹的纸莎草纸。

12 And the move from Egyptian papyrus to locally prepared animal skins after the fall of the Roman Empire changed the shape of books from square to rectangular: “most mammals,” after all, “are oblong.”

13 Why could I not go in the early mornings to the marshes, cut papyrus and sell it to the sailmakers, then be Rekh’s apprentice the rest of the day?

14 Probably someone was wandering around ancient Athens in a fetching tunic with a papyrus scroll detailing how Hermes got handsy.

15 Today, the papyrus documents everywhere are faced with danger of spontaneous combustion.

今天，无论存放在何地的纸草纸文献都面临自燃被毁的危险。

16 To cover it he waded a little farther, pushed aside the last fringe of papyrus, pretending to study the bright colored sails that dotted the river.

17 When early civilizations started pressing reeds to clay tablets, carving figures in stone, and daubing ink on parchment and on papyrus, number systems had already been well-established.

18 Egyptian food, pastries, papyrus art, jewelry, souvenirs, Coptic Christian art, icons, literature, sponsored by St. Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church of Lynnwood, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

19 In those days , paper was made from strips of the papyrus plant.

当时的纸是由纸莎草植物的剥离物制成的.

20 Edna glances up as I brush past her to get my papyrus.

1 文稿

text typing typescript

2 纸

paper papery

3 手稿

manuscript palimpsest

4 莎草科

sedge tule sawgrass carex galingale deergrass clubrush chufa cutting grass cotton grass tiger nut water chestnut umbrella plant

5 写本

transcription

6 文献

documentary document bibliography paper literature corpus

7 纸草

bulrush

8 纸莎草

bulrush