It's also unique — the only known Oracle bone script inlaid with turquoise.

它也是独一无二的，是已知的唯一一件镶嵌着绿松石的甲骨。

My name is Kelly and today's video is all about Chinese oracle bones.

我是凯利，今天的视频是关于中国甲骨文的。

She's mentioned almost two hundred times in oracle bones found in the Yin ruins.

在殷墟发现的甲骨文中，她被提到过近两百次。

The kings of the Shang Dynasty are recorded as hunting rhinoceroses on the oracle bone inscriptions.

在甲骨文记录中，商朝的国王们会狩猎犀牛。

These 154,000 oracle bones offer us a precious glimpse of life in China some three thousand years ago.

这15.4万块甲骨让我们得以一窥大约三千年前中国的生活。

Not only did the oracle bones give birth to the Chinese script, but they also acted as primary sources for the people of Shang China.

甲骨文不仅催生了汉字，而且还是商朝人民的主要资料来源。

From the surviving oracle bones, we have primary evidence for just how prosperous the Shang Dynasty was and how people, mostly the elite, spent their time.

从现存的甲骨文中，我们可以看到商朝是多么的繁荣，以及人们，主要是精英阶层，是如何度过他们的时光的主要证据。

Although some oracle bones have been found from the Zhou Dynasty, most of them are dated to the Shang Dynasty—the period of Chinese history when oracle bones were used most regularly.

虽然发现了一些周代的甲骨文，但其中大部分可以追溯到商代——中国历史上甲骨文使用最频繁的时期。

The oracle bones declined in use during the Zhou Dynasty with the introduction of the " I-Ching" , a fortune-telling book that was a different way for divining the future.

甲骨文在周朝随着《易经》的引入而衰落，这是一本算命书，是一种不同的预测未来的方法。

Indeed, it's a view that, according to his performance, is supported by the character of Shang, as it appears in the oracle bone script, reminiscent of the face of an owl.

事实上，从其外表形象上来看，这种观点得到了为商鞅这个角色所支撑，因为甲骨文中曾出现过其让人联想到猫头鹰的脸。

The symbols used on the oracle bones standardized certain characters to have specific meanings, like a certain character would mean " oxen" and another meant " market" and so on.

甲骨文上使用的符号将某些字符标准化为具有特定含义，例如某个字符表示“牛”，另一个表示“市场”等等。

Wang died the next year without finding out where the bones came from, and although Liu published the first book on oracle bone inscriptions, he also never found out where they were from.

第二年，王懿荣去世了，他在去世前仍没有找到骨头的来源，尽管刘鹗出版了第一本关于甲骨文的书，但他也没有找到这些骨头的来源。

Chinese writers in later dynasties referred to the Shang Dynasty as a kind of Golden age, and the oracle bones showed modern-day scholars that they had certainly a good reason to think that.

后世的中国作家将商朝称为黄金时代，而甲骨文向现代的学者表明，他们当然有充分的理由这样认为。

After Luo Zhenyu published his finds and translated the inscriptions, far more scholars became interested in the oracle bones; and so the farmers began to sell them instead to scholars, museums, collectors, and universities.

罗振玉发表他的发现并翻译了碑文后，更多的学者对甲骨文产生了兴趣；因此农民开始将甲骨文卖给学者、博物馆、收藏家和大学。

With the thousands of surviving oracle bones from ancient China, we have just another example of how the people living some 3, 000 years ago were really not so different from how we are today.

随着中国古代数以千计的幸存甲骨文的出现，我们又有了一个说明生活在大约 3,000 年前的人们与我们今天的生活方式真的没有什么不同的例子。

Since the oracle bones were dated, we have exact details for events like when cities were built, astronomical events; when taxes were raised or paid, when animals and objects were sold and even when marriages were arranged.

由于甲骨文是有日期的，所以我们有确切的事件细节，如城市的建造时间、天文事件；何时加税或缴税、何时出售动物和物品，甚至何时安排婚姻。