英语听力：自然百科 古格 消失的西藏王朝(2)

What happend to bring these great civilization to an end.

到底发生了什么使得这一伟大文明走向灭亡到底。

What is the arrival of the first ever westers to visit the Tibet.

到底发生了什么使得有史以来西方人首次前往西藏。

Or what is the intense rivalry¹ bewteen two brothers fighting for power.

或者到底发生了什么使得两兄弟争夺权力进行激烈的竞争。

Why was it completely abandoned.

为什么它被完全遗弃。

And what's silent secrets did these decapitated remains² tell.

还有这些沉默的秘密到底会告诉我们什么。

To unravel³ this mistery a Tibetean historian.

为了解开这个神秘，一位西藏历史学家。

And an American archeologist traveled to the far reaches of Tibet.

和一个美国考古学家动身前往遥远的西藏。

To its four-hundred-year-old ruins,

到达四百年历史之久的这片废墟,

where they will discover the answers to what happend to the extraordinary Kingdom of GuGe.

在那里他们会找到非凡的古格王国到底发生什么的答案。

1 rivalry   

n.竞争，竞赛，对抗

参考例句：

• The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two families.这次争吵是两家不和引起的。
• He had a lot of rivalry with his brothers and sisters.他和兄弟姐妹间经常较劲。

2 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

3 unravel   

v.弄清楚（秘密）；拆开，解开，松开

参考例句：

• He was good with his hands and could unravel a knot or untangle yarn that others wouldn't even attempt.他的手很灵巧，其他人甚至都不敢尝试的一些难解的绳结或缠在一起的纱线，他都能解开。
• This is the attitude that led him to unravel a mystery that long puzzled Chinese historians.正是这种态度使他解决了长期以来使中国历史学家们大惑不解的谜。