Though she knew even less about radios than about southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate.

映入她的眼帘，虽然她对于收音机的了解,比对南加州的还要少，不过这两者都有一种,如同象形文字的意味，有一种隐蔽的，想要沟通的意图。

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We can go back to ancient Egypt where there khemeia is reference in the hieroglyphs to term khemeia, which, among other things, meant chemical processes for embalming the dead.

我们可以追溯到古埃及,那的象形文字提到了词语,这是，在其他事情当中，意味着,化学过程处理防腐尸体。

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