Oracles, the ancient characters carved onto tortoise shells and beast bones, are the earliest form of Chinese characters.

甲骨文（Oracles）是刻在龟壳和兽骨上的古老文字， 是汉字最早的形式。

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This argument has established the foundation for the research of Warring States characters, which becomes an important branch of the subject of ancient characters research later.

这一论点为后来成为古文字学重要分支的战国文字研究奠定了基础。

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The rock wall is strewed with a series of ancient characters.

那面石壁布满了一系列的古老文字。

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With the sun stabbing at them through their window blinds, the two old men struggled to their feet and lurched out onto their adjacent verandas, emerging at almost the same moment, like characters in an ancient tale, trapped in fateful coincidences, unable to escape the consequences of chance.

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The ancient Greeks would consider that their characters were unbalanced, with their humours in the wrong proportions.

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