How extensive was the fragment? Who was the papyrologist? Had the dating been corroborated by others?

片段的范围有多大？谁是纸稿专家？日期是否得到了其他人的证实？

" My source is a papyrologist who worked on the manuscript, a man whose reputation is unimpeachable."

“我的消息来源是一位曾参与这份手稿工作的莎草纸专家，他的声誉毋庸置疑。”

All the results were assessed by papyrologists before the prizes were awarded.

在颁奖之前，所有结果均由纸莎草学家评估。

Such an act would be " the most staggering betrayal of the values and ethics of our profession" , according to the Manchester University papyrologist Roberta Mazza.

根据曼彻斯特大学古代纸草学家罗伯塔·马扎的说法，这样的行为将是 “我们职业价值观和伦理道德上最令人震惊的背叛”。

But the real detectives in this case have been a transatlantic band of papyrologists, theologians, classicists and biblical scholars, who have turned their deductive and evidence-sifting professional skills to the mystery.

但在这个案件中，真正的侦探是一支跨大西洋的古代纸草学家、神学家、古典学家和圣经学者团队，他们已经将其推理和筛选证据的专业技能用于破解这个谜团。

These rumours seemed outlandish — who would you be more likely to trust: the eminent Oxford papyrologist Dirk Obbink, or Scott Carroll, with his mummy masks on the stove?

这些传闻看似荒谬不经——你更可能信任哪个人呢：是备受尊敬的牛津纸质文献学家德克·奥比克，还是将木乃伊面具放在火炉上的斯科特·卡罗尔呢？

Now, Mike Sampson, a papyrologist at the University of Manitoba, has found evidence, seen by the Guardian, suggesting that the origin-story of the Sappho manuscript reported by Obbink may be a fiction.

现在，马尼托巴大学的纸稿学家迈克·桑普森发现了《卫报》看到的证据，表明奥比克报道的萨福手稿的起源故事可能是虚构的。

To be a papyrologist — to tease sense from damaged, ancient, near-illegible writing — you need to possess linguistic brilliance, a profound historical imagination, and a codebreaker's ability to play with different hypotheses of a text's meaning.

要成为纸质文献学家——从受损、古老、几近难以辨认的文字中揣摩意义——你需要具备语言学的才华、深刻的历史想象力，以及像密码破译者一样，能够运用不同的假设解读文本含义的能力。

One papyrologist told me, " I could have spent my career thinking about old chestnuts like the terminal date of Caesar's command, or whatever. But what I love is reading stuff that no one has read before."

一位纸质文献学家告诉我：“我本可以把我的职业生涯花在像凯撒指挥的结束日期之类的老问题上。但我喜欢的是阅读那些之前没有人读过的东西。”