如果你问苏美尔人，这个单词中哪个音节对应了英文翻译中“whenhehadmadeitsuitableforher”中的代词“it”，他们的回答会是“没有”。
If you were to ask which bit in the Sumerian word corresponds to the pronoun "it" in the English translation "when he had made it suitable for her", then the answer would have to be nothing.
楔形文字是苏美尔人的一大发明。
苏美尔人的这种学识是具有强大的生命力的。
最早的泥板文书来源于公元前3000年苏美尔人的文化。
The earliest clay tablets come from the Sumerian culture of around 3, 000BC.
苏美尔人怎样用一只手数到12，用两只手数到60 ？
How did the Sumerians count to 12 on one hand and to 60 on two?
他们更接近古代苏美尔人的水平，或者是美洲玛雅文化的水平。
They were nearer the level of the ancient Sumerians or of the Maya civilization of America.
苏美尔人创造了光辉灿烂的古西亚文明，是人类最古老的文明之一。
Sumerians created a brilliant ancient civilization in Western Asia, which is one of the oldest civilizations of Mankind.
在古代美索不达米亚，粗野的闪米特人袭击并最终战胜了富有和先进的苏美尔人。
In ancient Mesopotamia the rough Semites attacked and eventually overcame the wealthier, more sophisticated Sumerians.
有的说，四千多年前的古代苏美尔人是最早将鱼养在水塘里的文明社会。
Some say the ancient Sumerians were the first civilization to keep fish in ponds more than four thousand years ago.
不过，在乌尔和渴石的苏美尔人的建筑物中，有用砖砌成的粗大的柱子。
There are, however, massive brick pillars in Sumerian buildings at Ur and at Kish.
尽管这些成就，学者们对于苏美尔人的生活知道的更少，比起他们爱好什么而言。
Despite these achievements, scholars know much less about Sumerian life than they would like.
根据楔形文字，苏美尔人发现了上帝的古怪行为，必须在沙漠中先造出两个人他才能开始创造。
According to the cuneiform tablets, Sumerians found God's most puzzling act to be the creation from dust of the first two human beings.
故事的起源是苏美尔人发现的一个假想中的行星尼比鲁，有很多说法说它将撞击地球。
The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth.
然而早在约4500年以前，也有农民使用有毒的添加剂，苏美尔人便将硫磺撒在作物表面以杀死虫子。
But some farmers used toxic additives as early as 4, 500 years ago, when Sumerians dusted crops with sulphur to kill insects.
然而早在约4500年以前，也有农民使用有毒的添加剂，苏美尔人便将硫磺撒在作物表面以杀死虫子。
But some farmers used toxic additives as early as 4,500 years ago, when Sumerians dusted crops with sulphur to kill insects.
博物馆起源于苏美尔人的古城邦神庙，那些堆满房间的泥板上写满楔形文字，纪录了神、传说与历史。
Museum originates in Sumerians temple. In there, rooms were filled with clay tablets which were recorded in God legend and history by cuneiform.
虽然我们对苏美尔人的法律了解不多，学者们同意巴比伦君王书写的汉摩拉比的法令，公平的严密的复制了苏美尔人的法律。
Although we don't know much about Sumerian law, scholars agree that the Code of Hammurabi, written by a Babylonian monarch, reproduces Sumerian law fairly exactly.
根据NASA的网站Askan Astrobilogist(向天体物理学家提问)的说法，2012世界毁灭理论是两种说法的融合，一种来源于苏美尔人，一种来源于玛雅人。
According to NASA's Ask an Astrobiologist website, the theory that the world will end in December 2012 is a conflation of two ideas, one derived from the Sumerians, the other from the Maya.
美索不达米亚人认为不可思议的事是苏美尔和阿卡得起源的不可分混合物，被一种未知的底层人口所影响。
The Mesopotamian view on the srpernatuual is an inextricable mixture of Sumerian and Akkadian origin, influenced by an unknown substrate population.
阿卡德人是苏美尔城邦繁荣时期居住在阿拉伯半岛的闪族的一个民族。
The Akkadians were a Semitic people living on the Arabic peninsula during the great flourishing period of the Sumerian city-states.
阿卡德人是苏美尔城邦繁荣时期居住在阿拉伯半岛的闪族的一个民族。
The Akkadians were a Semitic people living on the Arabic peninsula during the great flourishing period of the Sumerian city-states.
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