2015-09-30 BBC:巨石阵行动:被埋藏的秘密-29
时间：2019-01-23 作者：英语课 分类：探索与发现2015年
-As we began to survey much larger areas of the landscape around Stonehenge, we began to see a number of other similar neolithic 1 monuments which were hidden under. This monument Aims-41 just to the northeast of Stonehenge long thought to be a simple early Bronze Age burial monument. We can now see is something completely different. It is a new long-gated closure with such angular sides with an entrance oriented due west. In the second frame, we can see another small monuments, a little mini shrine 2, a small henge monuments, very close to Stonehenge. To the northeast, this horseshoe-shaped arrangement of hits, within which we must assume that people gathered together to undertake rituals and ceremonies.In a separate study, archaeologists from English heritage reexamed old survey data taken just 200 meters from the stone circle. They, too, saw what appeared to be another henge monument.
-All together, we found about 20 new Neolithic ceremony monuments within the wide landscape around Stonehenge. The discoveries of so many shrines 3 in areas once thought deserted 4 showed beyond all doubt that Stonehenge was not alone and never had been.
-Rather than seeing Stonehenge standing 5 uniquely in the plain, we now start to see there are a series of similar monuments that may have acted as shrines, as the equivalent of modern rural chapel 6, where families, groups would come to visit at certain times.
- Cattle were first domesticated in Neolithic times.新石器时代有人开始驯养牛。
- The monument was Stone Age or Neolithic.该纪念碑是属于石器时代或新石器时代的。
- The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
- They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。
- All three structures dated to the third century and were tentatively identified as shrines. 这3座建筑都建于3 世纪，并且初步鉴定为神庙。
- Their palaces and their shrines are tombs. 它们的宫殿和神殿成了墓穴。
- The deserted village was filled with a deathly silence.这个荒废的村庄死一般的寂静。
- The enemy chieftain was opposed and deserted by his followers.敌人头目众叛亲离。
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。