papyrus

英 [pəˈpaɪrəs]

美 [pəˈpaɪrəs]

n.  纸莎草; (古埃及用的)纸莎草纸; (写在纸莎草纸上的)文献，文稿

复数：papyri　

GRE

BNC.26007 / COCA.23504

牛津词典

noun

• 纸莎草
  a tall plant with thick stems that grows in water
• （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
• （写在纸莎草纸上的）文献，文稿
  a document or piece of paper made of papyrus

柯林斯词典

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

英英释义

noun

• a document written on papyrus
• tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
  Synonym:Egyptian paper reedEgyptian paper rushpaper rushpaper plantCyperus papyrus
• paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat

双语例句

• 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）。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Egyptians wrote on papyrus.
  埃及人书写用薄草纸。
• 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。
• 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。