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What's amazing for me is of course this is a society where the economy is in its first stages, there is no money, there is no currency.
這是一個經濟處于最初級階段的社會，沒有鈔票或其他通貨。
So how do they get around that?
他們怎么辦？
Well, the symbols tell us that they've used beer-beer glorious beer.
這些符號告訴我們，他們用啤酒來付款，
I think that's absolutely tremendous; no liquidity crisis here,they are coming up with a different way of getting around the problem of the absence of a currency and, at the same time, sorting out how to have a functioning state.
我想這非常偉大，不會出現清償危機。他們找到了別的途徑來解決沒有貨幣的問題，同時也找出了運作國家的辦法。
And, as this society develops, you can see that this will become more and more important.
隨著社會的發展，這一方式會變得越來越有用。
And the ability to keep track, to write things down, which is a crucial element of the modern state-that we know how much money we're spending, and we know what we are getting for it-that is starting to emerge.
記錄和書寫的能力，這些現代國家的關鍵要素，開始逐漸出現。它能讓你了解你花了多少錢,又換來了什么。
And this tablet for me is the first ever equivalent of the cabinet secretary's notebook-it's that important.
這塊寫字板對我來說就 相當于這世界上出現的第一本內閣秘書的記事本：它就有那么重要。
Writing confers such power, that it inevitably became the subject of magic and myth.
當文字進入全面發展，表音符號逐漸代替了象形文字，
A later Mesopotamian epic poem gives us one version of how it all began:
書記員的生活一定十分快樂。
Because the messenger's mouth was heavy and he couldn't repeat the message,the Lord of Kullab patted some clay and put words on it, like a tablet. Until then, there had been no putting words on clay.
因為信使的嘴笨拙異常,他不能重復消息,耶和華就拍了一些粘土放了些單詞在上面,就像這塊寫字板。在此之前,還沒有人把單詞放在粘土上。
