1·This article is about how different language systems, Hieroglyphical, or phonetic, influence the thought of the users of them.
本文系讲述不同的语言系统是如何影响使用者的思维。主要系语音文字系统，和象形文字系统。
2·The Chinese characters, originated from pictures, were people's depiction of things, or the original hieroglyphical characters.
汉字最早起源于图画，是人们对事物形象的描绘，也就是最初的象形文字。
3·Humans generated several kinds of hieroglyphical characters, such as the hieroglyphical characters in ancient Egypt and Indians' Mayan characters.
世界上最早产生的几种象形文字，例如古埃及的象形文字和印第安人的玛雅文字。
4·Or in Sir Thomas Browne's magnificent phrase, the speech of a community is for its members 'a hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world'.
用托马斯·勃朗尼男爵的雄辩的话语来说：一个社会的语言对其成员来说就是一种关于整个世界的象形符号般的隐喻暗示的经验。