papyrus

noun

1. 纸莎草
   a tall plant with thick stems that grows in water
2. （古埃及用的）纸莎草纸
   paper made from the stems of the papyrus plant, used in ancient Egypt for writing and drawing on
3. （写在纸莎草纸上的）文献，文稿
   a document or piece of paper made of papyrus

1. （非洲的）纸莎草
   Papyrus is a tall water plant that grows in Africa.
2. （古代埃及、罗马和希腊用的）纸莎草纸
   Papyrus is a type of paper made from papyrus stems that was used in ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece.
3. （写在纸莎草纸上的）古代文献
   A papyrus is an ancient document that is written on papyrus.

1. In those days, paper was made from strips of the papyrus plant.
   在那个时期，纸张是由狭长条状的纸莎草植物做成的。
2. As early as 2700 BC Egyptians were converting papyrus into thick forms of paper or parchment ready to receive markings from reed pens.
   早在公元前2700年，埃及人便开始把纸莎草纸改进为较厚的纸张或是羊皮纸，以便用芦苇制成的笔记录文字。
3. And it was painted on the papyrus rolls used for writing about medicine and doctors.
   这个标志同时也被画在用于写医生处方的莎草纸卷上。
4. Papyrus: Egyptian reed form where the earliest form of paper was made.
   纸草：埃及的芦苇草。最早期的纸是用它制成。
5. A manuscript ( usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible.
   由于早期作品的一部分被擦去但仍可见而所写的不止一个的手稿（通常写在纸草或羊皮纸上）。
6. Phormium and Papyrus planted in front of a translucent glass privacy fence cast ever-changing shadows for a touch of drama.
   新西兰麻和纸莎草种植在半透明的玻璃栅栏前，投下不断变化的光影，些许戏剧上演的感觉。
7. When I saw this lore, I knew that it touched on the scenes I had haunted, and I therefore read long in the yellowed papyrus.
   当我看到这个传说，我就意识到它叙述的就是我多次游历的那些场景，因此我花了很长时间阅读这张泛黄的纸莎草纸。
8. Cargo unloaded in the port was spectacular in both volume and quality. Marble, papyrus, jewels, gold, spices, silk, ivory, fur and linen arrived by the shipload.
   港口卸载的货物不论质、量都首屈一指，大理石、纸草、珠宝、黄金、香料、丝料、象牙、皮毛、亚麻等等都是一船船运抵。
9. Roman books, which mail writing materials were papyrus and parchment, inherited to the Greek model.
   古罗马的图书形式是继承希腊模式而来的，它的主要书写材料是纸草和羊皮纸。
10. At the pyramids tourists can buy pictures of ancient Egyptian gods on papyrus.
    在金字塔景点，游客们能够买到印在纸莎草上的古埃及神灵的图片。
11. Although papyrus was widely used over a long period of time, other materials were also used for writing in ancient Egypt.
    在古埃及，虽然纸莎草纸曾在一个长时期中被广泛使用，但是也有其它的书写材料。
12. In fact, the name for Lower Egypt in hieroglyphs was shown as several papyrus plants growing out of the ground.
    实际上，象形文字中下埃及的写法就是几根纸草从大地中长出来。
13. In the papyrus, Ani's journey has a good outcome. Horus, the son of Osiris, speaks up for him, and he's admitted into paradise.
    根据纸莎草卷轴的描述，阿尼的旅程得到圆满的结果。奥西里斯之子荷鲁斯为他说好话，他获准进入天堂。
14. The papyrus is indispensable in the course of the development of human communication media, which symbolizes the creativity of human on exploring writing material.
    纸莎草纸的出现是一种进步，表明了人类利用自然之赐，探索新的书写材料的创造力。
15. The Egyptians wrote on papyrus.
    埃及人书写用薄草纸。
16. Rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper. The papyrus plant was important to the ancient Egyptians because it was used to make papyrus scrolls.
    在人造纸或是机器造纸时用使纸浆定型的制模框而形成的粗边。纸草对古埃及人来说很重要，它是制造纸莎草卷轴的原料。
17. Today, the papyrus documents everywhere are faced with danger of spontaneous combustion.
    今天，无论存放在何地的纸草纸文献都面临自燃被毁的危险。
18. Woollen cloth and timber were sent to Egypt in exchange for linen or papyrus.
    羊毛料和木材送到埃及以换取亚麻布或纸莎草纸。
19. Linen and cotton paper, which the European learned about from the Chinese through the arabians, replaced parchment and papyrus from the twelfth century on.
    从12世纪以来，欧洲通过阿拉伯人，从中国学制造麻纸和绵纸以代替羊皮纸和草片纸。
20. The papyrus plant was important to the ancient Egyptians because it was used to make papyrus scrolls.
    纸草对古埃及人来说很重要，它是制造纸莎草卷轴的原料。
21. For example, there is a papyrus discovered at Thebes offering a reward for a run-away slave.
    比如说，在底比斯发现了一张纸莎草纸，悬赏捉拿一个逃跑的奴隶。
22. We had a few papyrus fragments, three papyrus fragments, that had Greek versions of just parts of the Gospel of Thomas, just pieces of it from Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.
    有一些莎草纸的片段，三张莎草纸片段，上面有希腊语版的部分多马福音，只在埃及的俄克喜林库斯发现了几张。
23. We are looking for suppliers to supply us with Egyptian products including papyrus, statues and glass perfume bottles.
    我们正在寻找能提供埃及产品的供应商，包括纸莎草纸和玻璃香水瓶雕像。
24. And we know this because the cardboard that was used to bind these things was made out of papyrus fragments and paper fragments, they were older.
    因为用于连接这些书的纸板，是用莎草纸碎片以及，纸的碎片制成的，更为古老。
25. Manage your busy life with Papyrus and your mobile phone.
    忙碌的生活与纸莎草纸管你和你的手机。
26. Paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans.
    将纸莎草切成条后压平制成的纸，尤其为古代埃及人、希腊人和罗马人使用。
27. The papyrus plant was common in ancient Egypt, and the ancient Egyptians often showed the papyrus in their art.
    纸草在古埃及是普遍生长着的植物，古埃及人喜欢把纸草与他们的艺术融合在一起。
28. With lots of insurmountable disadvantages, the papyrus is substituted by parchment and paper at last.
    但纸莎草纸也具有自身不可克服的诸多局限性，其最终被羊皮纸和纸所代替，更是一种历史的必然和进步。
29. Western countries has experienced the papyrus and parchment to the use of paper.
    西方国家经历了纸莎草纸、羊皮纸最后到纸张的使用。

noun

1. a document written on papyrus

2. tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times

   Synonym:    Egyptian paper reedEgyptian paper rushpaper rushpaper plantCyperus papyrus

3. paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat