术语“象形文字”的详细信息

英译术语:

pictographic character

汉语语境:

以象形文字为基础发展起来的汉字对于中国人的思维习惯产生了决定性的影响。它使中国人习惯于具象思维而不擅于抽象逻辑推理，它使几千年来的中国思想世界形成了注重对现象世界的考量而拙于科学精神的追求，中国文化因此体现出一种鲜明的实用理性精神。

英语语境:

Chinese characters, based on and originated from pictographic characters, have a decisive impact on Chinese people's thinking habits. It makes the Chinese people accustomed to thinking, but not good at abstract logical reasoning. It makes the Chinese think more of the phenomenon of the formation of the world but less to the pursuit of scientific spirit during thousands of years. Chinese culture is therefore a clear manifestation of the spirit of practical rationality.

英译术语:

hieroglyph

汉语语境:

玛雅文字中也有意符存在，但玛雅字符的组合更多的是符合表音的需要。从符号功能来看，玛雅文字的表音功能已经超过了表意，其内部开始出现表音文字的一些特点，如已经开始倾向于线形结构规则的表达。或者可以这样说，通过玛雅文字我们可以看到，在象形文字内部已经产生了表音文字内在的结构原则与核心精神，所以我们不能从外形来过分低估玛雅文字的文字地位。

英语语境:

There are logograms in Maya hieroglyphs, but the combination of letters is rather for the phonetic need. Functionally, the phonetic function for Maya hieroglyphs has suppressed the function for ideogram. Some characteristics of letter words have appeared within the writings, for example, the tendency for linear structure has appeared. In other words, possibly we can say that, through Maya hieroglyphs, the internal structural principles and central spirits for phonogram have come into being within the hieroglyphs. Therefore, we can't under-evaluate the position of Maya hieroglyphs just from the writing form.