2015-07-24 BBC:巨石阵行动:被埋藏的秘密-10

 Then, around 8200 years ago, climate change had dramatic impact on the destiny of Stonehenge landscape. As the last ice age thawed¹, rising melt waters engulfed² the territory known as Dogland and Britain became an island. Cut off from continental³ influence, life in Mesolithic Britain changed little. For the next 2000 years, no new monuments appeared in the Stonehenge area. A clue to the resumption of monument was found in the fields 2 kilometers east to the Stonehenge. These enigmatic lines are the faint traces of ancient building, surveyed by the hidden landscape projects high resolution scanners.

The truth of significance was revealed. We are trying out to set out the points of the monuments that were actually detected in our magnetic data. Ok, let’s start one. Professor Novgan and Almen Boldwen state out the find. So this is site of fa?ade. Yeah. Let’s see,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. The structure was far more advanced than anything that had previously⁴ been built in the region.

1 thawed   

解冻

参考例句：

• The little girl's smile thawed the angry old man. 小姑娘的微笑使发怒的老头缓和下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He thawed after sitting at a fire for a while. 在火堆旁坐了一会儿，他觉得暖和起来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 engulfed   

v.吞没，包住( engulf的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters. 他被一群记者团团围住。
• The little boat was engulfed by the waves. 小船被波浪吞没了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 continental   

adj.大陆的，大陆性的，欧洲大陆的

参考例句：

• A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
• The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。

4 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。