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Now a look at a historic renovation¹ at one of the holiest places in Christianity, the building that tradition says houses the tomb of Jesus. It hadn't been restored in more than 200 years, and it was at risk of collapse³. A team has just finished months of careful work. Here's NPR's Daniel Estrin in Jerusalem.

DANIEL ESTRIN, BYLINE⁴: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is one of the world's oldest churches. In a center of the church is a large, ornate monument called the Edicule. According to Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian² belief, that monument houses the ancient cave were Jesus' body was entombed and then resurrected. The walls of the monument have been buckling⁵ outwards⁶.

BONNIE BURNHAM: I would venture to say that if this intervention⁷ hadn't happened now, there was a very great risk that there could have been a collapse.

ESTRIN: Bonnie Burnham represents the World Monuments Fund which helped with fundraising for the $4 million project. A Greek restoration team from Athens spent almost a year removing parts of the tomb and putting them back together. Stone slabs⁸ were removed from the walls. Black candle soot⁹ and pigeon droppings were scrubbed off. Titanium mesh¹⁰ and grout were inserted in the building's core. And the hulking, unsightly iron cage built around the shrine¹¹ in 1947 to reinforce it was removed.

ANTONIA MOROPOULOU: This monument today is free. It's emancipated¹² from the iron grids¹³. It is emancipated from what was keeping it in a jailed protection.

ESTRIN: That's the head of the Greek restoration team, Antonia Moropoulou. She described probably the most dramatic moment of the restorations last fall. Her team slid back all the marble layers covering the rock-hewn bench where believers say Jesus' body was placed. There is a layer from the late crusader era of the 14th century and an earlier layer from the fourth century when Constantine built the original church. Father Euginio Alliata got a peek¹⁴ at what was under all of that.

EUGINIO ALLIATA: It was really important to see the bench - very flat and almost complete from the right to the left, almost for the shape that one man can stay on it. So this was really something very important. And this - it is the first time that it has been documented as it is.

ESTRIN: The marble layers were put back in place, but one change was made in the shrine's inner sanctum. A small window was cut into one of the shrine's walls. So for the first time, visitors get a glimpse of what's behind the original rock wall of what tradition says is Jesus' tomb. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Jerusalem.

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1 renovation   

n.革新，整修

参考例句：

• The cinema will reopen next week after the renovation.电影院修缮后，将于下星期开业。
• The building has undergone major renovation.这座大楼已进行大整修。

2 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

3 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 buckling   

扣住

参考例句：

• A door slammed in the house and a man came out buckling his belt. 房子里的一扇门砰地关上，一个男子边扣腰带边走了出来。
• The periodic buckling leaves the fibre in a waved conformation. 周期性的弯折在纤维中造成波形构成。

6 outwards   

adj.外面的，公开的，向外的；adv.向外；n.外形

参考例句：

• Does this door open inwards or outwards?这门朝里开还是朝外开？
• In lapping up a fur,they always put the inner side outwards.卷毛皮时，他们总是让内层朝外。

7 intervention   

n.介入，干涉，干预

参考例句：

• The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
• Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

8 slabs   

n.厚板，平板，厚片( slab的名词复数 )；厚胶片

参考例句：

• The patio was made of stone slabs. 这天井是用石板铺砌而成的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The slabs of standing stone point roughly toward the invisible notch. 这些矗立的石块，大致指向那个看不见的缺口。 来自辞典例句

9 soot   

n.煤烟，烟尘；vt.熏以煤烟

参考例句：

• Soot is the product of the imperfect combustion of fuel.煤烟是燃料不完全燃烧的产物。
• The chimney was choked with soot.烟囱被煤灰堵塞了。

10 mesh   

n.网孔，网丝，陷阱；vt.以网捕捉，啮合，匹配；vi.适合； [计算机]网络

参考例句：

• Their characters just don't mesh.他们的性格就是合不来。
• This is the net having half inch mesh.这是有半英寸网眼的网。

11 shrine   

n.圣地，神龛，庙；v.将...置于神龛内，把...奉为神圣

参考例句：

• 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。

12 emancipated   

adj.被解放的，不受约束的v.解放某人（尤指摆脱政治、法律或社会的束缚）( emancipate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Slaves were not emancipated until 1863 in the United States. 美国奴隶直到1863年才获得自由。
• Women are still struggling to be fully emancipated. 妇女仍在为彻底解放而斗争。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 grids   

n.格子( grid的名词复数 )；地图上的坐标方格；（输电线路、天然气管道等的）系统网络；（汽车比赛）赛车起跑线

参考例句：

• Typical framed structures are beams, grids, plane and space frames or trusses. 典型构架结构为梁、格栅、平面的和空间的框架或桁架。 来自辞典例句
• The machines deliver trimmed grids for use or stock. 这种机器铸出修整过的板栅，以供使用或储存。 来自辞典例句

14 peek   

vi.偷看，窥视；n.偷偷的一看，一瞥

参考例句：

• Larry takes a peek out of the window.赖瑞往窗外偷看了一下。
• Cover your eyes and don't peek.捂上眼睛，别偷看。