2017考研英语翻译每日一句：甲骨文

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    本期主题【甲骨文】
    The earliest characters once existed in China areJiaguwen carved on
tortoise shells or animal bones,mainly during the Shang Dynasty. In
1899，theinscriptions of the Shang Dynasty's Jiaguwen weredetected in Anyang of
Henan Province which was thecapital in the late Shang Dynasty. So far,
altogether more than 100,000 pieces of tortoise shellsand animal bones have been
unearthed from Anyang;about 4,500 Chinese characters have beenfound on the
tortoise shells and animal bones, among which 1,700 have been confirmed.Theseare
very important materials for us to research into the origin of Chinese
characters. In thepast, people generally considered Jiaguwen of the Shang
Dynasty as the earliest Chinesecharacters. But in 1980s, some other tortoise
shells and animal bones carved with characterswere found in the suburb of Xi'an.
Archaeologists made sure that these characters were about4,000 years ago, even
earlier than Jiaguwen.
    参考翻译：
    中国最早的文字主要是商朝时期刻在龟壳或兽骨上的甲骨文(Jiaguwen)。1899年，商朝的甲骨文碑文(inscriptions)在商朝晚期的都城河南安阳被发现。迄今为止，安阳共出土了10万多个龟壳和兽骨;龟壳和兽骨上发现的汉字约有4500个，其中1700个已得到确认。这为我们研究汉字起源提供了重要素材。过去，人们普遍认为商朝的甲骨文是最早的汉字。但是，20世纪80年代在西安郊区发现了一些刻有文字的龟壳和兽骨。考古学家证实这些汉字约产生于4000多年以前，比甲骨文还早。