2015-08-05 BBC:巨石阵行动:被埋藏的秘密-13

 Without the nearby Long Burrows¹ added to the map, this is how the area looked, 6000 years ago. The arrival of the Neolithic² culture from Europe, reaffirms the landscape’s sacred status. Stonehenge is a unique landscape. It capsulates how early societies related to the landscape that belief systems prevailed everyday life, how ritual and religion were so important to them. We see it in Stonehenge rather extreme manner, but nonetheless it demonstrates just how important the position the earlier communities had with the landscape around them. As well as Long Burrows, another typical Neolithic structure known as Causewayed Enclosure appeared for the first time in the Stonehenge area 5600 years ago. Four and half kilometers to the northwest, faint scars on the grassland³ hinted its original shape. This is rather**. It’s beautiful from this side. This is one of the earlier Neolithic monuments built in this landscape.

1 burrows   

n.地洞( burrow的名词复数 )v.挖掘（洞穴），挖洞( burrow的第三人称单数 )；翻寻

参考例句：

• The intertidal beach unit contains some organism burrows. 潮间海滩单元含有一些生物潜穴。 来自辞典例句
• A mole burrows its way through the ground. 鼹鼠会在地下钻洞前进。 来自辞典例句

2 neolithic   

adj.新石器时代的

参考例句：

• 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。

3 grassland   

n.牧场，草地，草原

参考例句：

• There is a reach of grassland in the distance.远处是连绵一片的草原。
• The snowstorm swept the vast expanse of grassland.暴风雪袭击了辽阔的草原。