Rosetta Stone
- IPA[rə(ʊ)ˈzɛtə]
英式
- an inscribed stone found near Rosetta (now called Rashid) on the western mouth of the Nile in Egypt in 1799. Its text is written in three scripts: hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek. The deciphering of the hieroglyphs by Jean-François Champollion in 1822 led to the interpretation of many other early records of Egyptian civilization.
- a key to some previously undecipherable mystery or unattainable knowledge
noun: Rosetta stone, plural noun: Rosetta stones
- 釋義
片語
- 1. an inscribed stone found near Rosetta (now called Rashid) on the western mouth of the Nile in Egypt in 1799. Its text is written in three scripts: hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek. The deciphering of the hieroglyphs by Jean-François Champollion in 1822 led to the interpretation of many other early records of Egyptian civilization.
名詞
- 1. a key to some previously undecipherable mystery or unattainable knowledge zero point energy could be the Rosetta stone of physics
