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rosetta stone
- n. a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics
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Rosetta stone
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N a basalt slab discovered in 1799 at Rosetta, dating to the reign of Ptolemy V (196 bc) and carved with parallel inscriptions in Egyptian hieroglyphics, demotic characters, and Greek, which provided the key to the decipherment of ancient Egyptian texts 罗塞达石碑; 于1799年发现于罗塞达，上刻埃及象形文字、通俗字和希腊文，从而成为解读埃及文字的钥匙
双语例句权威例句
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The Rosetta Stone is arguably the most famous archaeological artefact ever discovered.
罗塞塔石碑可以说是迄今为止发现的最著名的考古文物。
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We didn't even know at first that the three texts on the Rosetta Stone contain the same information.
一开始我们甚至不知道罗塞塔石碑上的三段文字包含着相同的信息。
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Thomas young, an English scholar, was the first to seriously attempt to decipher the symbols on the Rosetta Stone.
英国学者托马斯·杨是第一个认真尝试破译罗塞塔石碑上符号的人。
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