手机APP下载

您现在的位置: 首页 > 双语阅读 > 图文阅读 > 大千世界 > 正文

人类的古老文明:被历史遗忘的十个文明古国

来源:龙腾网 编辑:liekkas   可可英语APP下载 |  可可官方微信:ikekenet


Photo credit: Rama
图片引自:Rama
7、Hurrian Civilization
胡里安文明

Another civilization which influenced the Hittites was the Hurrian people, who lived throughout the Middle East during the second millennium B.C. It’s probable that they were around even earlier than that: Personal and place names written in the Hurrian language were found in Mesopotamian records dating back to the third millennium B.C. Unfortunately, very few artifacts of their civilization exist; most of what we know about them comes from the writings of other cultures, including the Hittites, Sumerians, and Egyptians.
另一个对赫梯人产生过所影响的,是胡里安文明。胡里安人分布于中东地区,生活在公元前的第二个千年里(译注:即指公元前2000~公元前1000年)。他们或许在更早的时代就出现了:以胡里安语书写的人名和地名被发现存在于美索不达米亚的历史资料中,后者可追溯至公元前的第三个千年。不幸的是,只有非常少量的胡里安文明手工制品存在于世;我们对他们的所知主要源于 包括包括赫梯、苏美尔以及埃及在内的其他文明的记载。

One of their largest cities is known as Urkesh and is located in northeastern Syria. Urkesh is also where the earliest known text in Hurrian, a stone tablet and statue known as the Louvre lion, was found. Long believed to be mainly nomadic, scholars now believe that the Hurrians may have had a much bigger impact than previously thought, mostly due to the way their language differed from other Semitic and Indo-European tongues. However, by the end of the second millennium B.C., nearly all ethnic traces of the Hurrians had disappeared, with only their influence on the Hittites left behind.
胡里安人最大的城市之一是沃克什(Urkesh),坐落在今叙利亚北部。沃克什亦是胡里安最早的文本——一个石碑和被称为罗浮狮的雕像——的发现地。长期以来人们认为胡里安人以游牧为主。如今,学者们认为胡里安人所产生过的影响或许比我们原想的更大,主要基于其语言与其他闪米特和印欧语系语言差异的形式。无论如何,在公元前第二个世纪的末尾,胡里安民族的踪迹几乎全部消失,只剩他们对赫梯人的影响流传下去。

重点单词   查看全部解释    
range [reindʒ]

想一想再看

n. 范围,行列,射程,山脉,一系列
v. 排

 
prehistoric ['pri:his'tɔrik]

想一想再看

adj. 史前的
=prehistorical

 
occupied

想一想再看

adj. 已占用的;使用中的;无空闲的 v. 占有(oc

 
scene [si:n]

想一想再看

n. 场,景,情景

 
addition [ə'diʃən]

想一想再看

n. 增加,附加物,加法

联想记忆
legend ['ledʒənd]

想一想再看

n. 传说,传奇

联想记忆
obscurity [əb'skjuriti]

想一想再看

n. 昏暗,晦涩,不出名

 
turkey ['tə:ki]

想一想再看

n. 土耳其
turkey
n. 火

联想记忆
qualify ['kwɔlifai]

想一想再看

vt. 使合格,限定,描述
vi. 合格,取得

 
recognizable ['rekəgnaizəbl]

想一想再看

adj. 可认识的,可承认的,可辨别的

 

发布评论我来说2句

    最新文章

    可可英语官方微信(微信号:ikekenet)

    每天向大家推送短小精悍的英语学习资料.

    添加方式1.扫描上方可可官方微信二维码。
    添加方式2.搜索微信号ikekenet添加即可。