hieroglyphics

Egyptian writing — the famous hieroglyphics — developed independently not long thereafter, under similar circumstances, historians think.

历史学家认为，埃及人的象形文字，在这此后不就也独立的发展了起来。

The power behind much of this automation is the regular expression, a veritable set of hieroglyphics to find, match, and decompose strings.

实现这种自动化主要依靠正则表达式，它是用来查找、匹配和分解字符串的一组真正的象形文字。

Thereare 23 symbols in each form of Meroitic. In that respect it resembles amodern alphabet - unlike Egyptian hieroglyphics, which use hundreds ofsymbols.

和拥有上百个字符的埃及象形文字不同的是，麦罗埃文只有23个字符，这和现代字母表很相像。