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Rosetta StoneBrE /rəʊˈzetə stəʊn/ NAmE /roʊˈzetə stoʊn/ noun [sing. ]something , especially a discovery , that helps people to understand or find an explanation for a mystery or area of knowledge that not much was known about 有助于解释神秘事物（或未知领域）的事物；有启示作用的发现ORIGINFrom the name of an ancient stone with writing in three different languages on it that was found near Rosetta in Egypt in 1799 . It has helped archaeologists to understand and translate many other ancient Egyptian texts .源自 1799 年在埃及罗塞塔附近发现的刻有三种文字的古代罗塞塔石碑，考古学家由此解读了很多其他古埃及文本。 |