These early writings (besides the numerals) were actually pictures, or rough sketches, you might say, of the words they represented; this early Sumerian writing was pictographic writing.

• 这些最早的书写文字（除了数字以外）是事实上的绘画形式，或者草图，你可能会叫做这些为他们描绘的词汇；这些苏美尔人最早的书写文字是象形文字。