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105099 [162] Watkins's idea was that Stone Age people would find their way through the untamed wilderness by walking in straight lines towards prominent markers, usually on the skyline. (7)沃特金斯认为,石器时代的人会循着特定标志物以直线穿越未经开化的荒地,这种标志通常位于地平线之上。
105100 [163] The problem with Watkins's and similar approaches is that they treat the landscape as a blank canvas, which it never was. (8)沃特金斯的理论以及其他类似假设的问题在于他们将景观视作一块白布,可景观从来都不是凭空出现的。
105101 [164] To reach such symmetrical perfection, Jones introduced an additional Trilithon. (9)为了达到完美的对称效果,琼斯还加入了一座新的三石塔。
105104 [168] Their detailed account provides good evidence that the digging and filling in of the ditch followed a similar pattern to that observed at modern excavations of causewayed enclosure ditches elsewhere in Britain. (1)他们翔实的报告给出了有力的证据,证明巨石阵不断开挖填埋沟渠的行为,同现代考古发掘在不列颠别处的堤道围场沟渠所观察到的行为存在相近模式。
105107 [170] More recently a reassessment of the radiocarbon dates of British causewayed enclosures has clearly shown that the first three phases (1A–C) at Etton were quite short-lived, but also formed a close but neatly separated sequence that evolved without any breaks. It is a remarkably precise sequence. (3)最近研究人员对不列颠的堤道围场重新进行了放射性碳测年,结果明确显示出埃顿的前三个阶段(1A—1C)时间都不长,但是它们一同构成了一个彼此相近却互相间隔的序列,其间没有任何断裂。
105108 [171] Each of the three sub-phases of Phase 1 probably lasted for about half a century, or two to three generations, at most. 这个序列相当精准,(4)每个阶段最多只存续了半个世纪,也就是两到三代人的时间。
105109 [172] The lower levels of the Stonehenge ditch seem to be similarly varied, and the undulating or lobed areas are, if anything, even more pit-like and irregular. (5)巨石阵沟渠的下断面和这里很相似,呈起伏状或有裂痕的区域更像灰坑,也更不规则。
105110 [173] Again, this would indicate small working parties. (6)同样,这也表明作业的应该是一个很小的群体。
105111 [174] After each series of offerings had been made, the ditch was then filled in with the gravel that had been dug from it. (7)放好每一段的献祭品之后,人们会用原本挖出来的砾石重新填埋沟渠。
105112 [177] Put briefly, the general trend is from separated and distinct individual offerings placed within a ditch that sometimes resembles a series of joined-up pits, to a series of smaller offerings placed in a continuous row, within a shallower recut ditch, whose shape is far more regular and ditch-like. (10)简单来说,整体的变化趋势是从一条沟渠内相互隔开的独立献祭品,慢慢发展为重挖的浅沟渠内一系列较排列成行的较小祭品,前者有时看起来像一系列连贯的灰坑,后者形状更加规整,也更具备沟渠的形态。