他喊道：“救命啊！”个子高的男孩问他：“我伤了你之后，你把它写在沙子上，现在却把它刻在石头上。”

He cried, "Help!" The taller boy asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote it in the sand, but now you carved it on a stone."

youdao

碑文已深深地刻在石头上。

The inscription is deeply cut on the stone.

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但是伤害不必刻在石头上永世不忘。

But that damage need not be written in stone.

youdao

These would have been inscriptions either on pottery, which the earliest ones are,or on stone, but otherwise I'm sure there was writing on perishable material-wooden plaques, probably not yet paper, but these would have been destroyed.

有些是刻在陶器上的铭文,最早期的时候,是刻在石头上的,但另外,我能肯定,有些是写在易腐蚀的材质,比如木头,或者瓷片上的,当时应该还没有出现纸,但是这些都被毁坏了

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