papyruses

papyruses

1. For example, in 1835, Smith bought some ancient Egyptian papyruses.

例如，在1835年，史密斯买回了一些古埃及纸草。

2. An island of southeast Egypt in the military post guarding the southern frontier of Egypt. The Elephantine papyruses, dating from the fifth century b.c., were discovered here in1903.

埃勒分蒂尼埃及东南部的一个岛，位于尼罗河上，在第一大瀑布下。古代为保卫埃及南部边疆的军事要塞。1903年在该处发现公元前5世纪前埃的勒分蒂尼纸莎草文件

3. It is mentioned in the earliest Chinese botanical treatise, which dates back to about 2800B.C.,as well as in Egyptian papyruses and the Bible.

它在最早期的中国植物论文被提及到，这追溯到大约西元前2800年，也在埃及纸草制的纸和圣经里中。

4. An ancient city of Phoenicia north-northeast of present-day Beirut, Lebanon. It was the chief city of Phoenicia in the second millennium b.c. and was noted for its papyruses.

比布鲁斯：腓尼基的一座古城，位于今黎巴嫩贝鲁特城东北偏北。公元前两千年为腓尼基的主要城市。因其出产纸莎草而闻名

5. The ancient Egyptians processed thin flat sheets from the papyruses.

纸草 (papyrus): They’re the plants that grow along the Nile.

6. Archaeologists have found papyruses inscribed with parts of lost plays by Sophocles and Euripides in a Greco-Roman rubbish tip in Egypt.

考古学家曾在埃及的一个古希腊罗马时代的垃圾堆里发现了记载着索福克勒斯和欧里庇斯部分佚失剧作的莎草纸。