hieroglyphics

英 [ˌhaɪərəˈɡlɪfɪks]

美 [ˌhaɪərəˈɡlɪfɪks]

n.  用象形文字书写的东西
hieroglyphic的复数

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牛津词典

noun

• 用象形文字书写的东西
  writing that uses hieroglyphs

柯林斯词典

• （尤指古埃及的）象形字，象形符号
  Hieroglyphicsare symbols in the form of pictures which are used in some writing systems, for example those of ancient Egypt.
• N-PLURAL 难辨认的文字（或符号）;难懂的文字（或符号）
  You can usehieroglyphicsto refer to something that has been written, but that you cannot understand.
  1. I've never come across hieroglyphics like the handwriting of Peter Smallwood.
     我从未见过像彼得·斯莫尔伍德那么难辨认的笔迹。

双语例句

• Hieroglyphics is a kind of writing made up of pictures.
  象形文字是一种由图画构成的文字。
• I like to listen to the beginning of hieroglyphics, the feeling of singing a lullaby in her mother, often unknowingly have already gone to sleep on.
  我一开始象听天书一样，感觉妈妈在唱一首催眠曲，经常不知不觉迷迷糊糊就进入了梦乡。
• Inside a cavern "hewn in solid rock by human hands" were found tablets bearing hieroglyphics, copper weapons and tools, statues of Egyptian deities and mummies.
  峡谷内发现用象形文字写着“人类用手在坚硬的岩石上开凿”的石片、铜制武器和工具，以及埃及女神像和木乃伊。
• Clare regarded her attentively, conned the characters of her face as if they had been hieroglyphics.
  克莱尔仔细地打量着她，把目光集中在她的脸上，仿佛上面刻有象形文字似的。
• Down a few stairs was a huge stone slab carved with mysterious designs and hieroglyphics.
  往下走几级梯子，有一块巨大的石板，上面刻着神秘的图案和象形文字。
• I can roar through the leafless oaks and shout down the hillside, and it can murmur in the white pines rooted among the granite ledges where lichen makes strange hieroglyphics.
  山坡上的橡树林，树叶凋落，风儿嚎啕过处，犹如猛虎下山，威风振振。花岗石崖上，青苔斑斑，也似奇异画面；银松林里，白色茫茫。
• The architecture, hieroglyphics and talisman, and alchemy, the Elixir of Life and antique medicine were also full of Oriental features.
  霍桑作品中的建筑、象形文字和符咒、炼金术、长生不老药和古老的医学也同样具有东方特色。
• The Culture Connotation of Hieroglyphics
  象形造字法的文化内涵
• The stone, created in196 BCE, inscribes three translations of a single passage& one each in hieroglyphics, Demotic ( an Egyptian script), and classical Greek.
  这块石碑制作于公元前196年，篆刻了对同一段文字的三种不同语言版本&分别是象形文字、通俗体文字（埃及草书）和希腊文字。
• This letter is as illegible as hieroglyphics.
  这封信字迹太潦草，像天书似的。