单词 | Rosetta Stone |
释义 | 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。 |
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