Sumerian

基本解釋

The region of Oman was once known by its Sumerian name Magan.
阿曼地區(qū)曾經(jīng)因美根的閃族人而聞名。
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(yīng)該是公元前2600年左右——譯者注），講述蘇美爾牧羊國王Dumuzi。
Sumerian pictures evolved into syllabic symbols used by many languages for almost two thousand years before the Phoenicians developed the single-sound symbols we know as an alphabet.
蘇美爾圖形演變成音節(jié)符號，被用作許多種語言長達幾乎兩千年，之后腓尼基人將之發(fā)展成我們所知的字母表那樣的單音符號。

We have a Sumerian story about the third millennium BCE, going back 3000--third millennium, 3000 BCE.
蘇美爾人有一個關(guān)于公元前三千年，一直往回3000年，公元前。
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We know of a very ancient Sumerian flood story.
我們都聽說過關(guān)于蘇美爾洪水的古老傳說。
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The Sumerian story of Ziusudra is very similar to the Genesis account.
蘇美爾傳說中關(guān)于Ziusudra和創(chuàng)世紀中的記載很相像。
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It was discovered outside Baghdad in 1850 on a 3, 800 year-old Sumerian clay tablet.
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