A society has to be super rich to support artists and elaborate building projects and to feed scholars who translate and comment on thousand-year-old documents.

一个须非常富有才能支持艺术家和精心设计的建筑项目，并养活翻译和评论千年历史文献的学者。

Imagine, now, that you are not Noah trying to save the natural world from a flood, but a scholar trying to save texts from the Library of Alexandria.

现在想象一下，你不是试图从洪水中拯自然世界的诺亚，而是一个试图出亚历山大图书馆中的文献的学者。

In 1908, a scholar and philologist Luo Zhenyu discovered they were coming from the fields outside of Anyang and when he travelled there, he found thousands of them.

1908 年，学者兼文献学家罗振玉发现这些文字来自安阳郊外的，他去那里旅行时，他发现了数千个骨头。

Because they were so poorly documented, scholars opine that Hatshepsut did it more out of a sense of obligation, feeling that it was her duty to continue the conquests of her father.

因为文献记载甚少，学者们认为哈特谢普苏特这么做更多的是出于一种责任感，觉得继续征服她父亲是她的责任。