Linear A is earlier and it is associated with and it is clearly the language used by the Minoan kings at Knossos and other places.

类线形文字出现得较早,而且它已被确定与克诺索斯或其他地区的,米诺斯时期国王们所使用的语言有一定的关联

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Now, what we learn, both from archaeology and from references in the Linear B tablets is that they engaged-- these cultures engaged in trade to a significant degree.

现在,我们从考古学,以及B类线形文字刻板中的线索得知,这些文明中具有相当多的贸易因素

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Because he couldn't figure out what they were, he called one Linear A and the other Linear B, because he could tell by careful analysis that they were different, and he could tell which pieces belonged to which.

由于他无法分辨他们是什么,因此叫它们A类线形文字和B类线形文字,因为他通过仔细的分析能区别出二者的不同,以及它们是属于哪种类型的

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We know that the Mycenaeans, or at least some small number of them could write, because we have the Linear B script, which we can read. There is no clue that there is such a thing as writing in the Homeric poems.

我们知道迈锡尼人中,至少小部分,是会写作的,因为我们找到了B类线形文字的遗稿,我们能够解读,但在荷马史诗中,却并没有任何线索表明写作这一点

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