2015-09-30 BBC:巨石阵行动:被埋藏的秘密-29

 -As we began to survey much larger areas of the landscape around Stonehenge, we began to see a number of other similar neolithic¹ monuments which were hidden under. This monument Aims-41 just to the northeast of Stonehenge long thought to be a simple early Bronze Age burial monument. We can now see is something completely different. It is a new long-gated closure with such angular sides with an entrance oriented due west. In the second frame, we can see another small monuments, a little mini shrine², a small henge  monuments, very close to Stonehenge. To the northeast, this horseshoe-shaped arrangement of hits, within which we must assume that people gathered together to undertake rituals and ceremonies.In a separate study, archaeologists from English heritage reexamed old survey data taken just 200 meters from the stone circle. They, too, saw what appeared to be another henge monument.

-All together, we found about 20 new Neolithic ceremony monuments within the wide landscape around Stonehenge. The discoveries of so many shrines³ in areas once thought deserted⁴ showed beyond all doubt that Stonehenge was not alone and never had been.

-Rather than seeing Stonehenge standing⁵ uniquely in the plain, we now start to see there are a series of similar monuments that may have acted as shrines, as the equivalent of modern rural chapel⁶, where families, groups would come to visit at certain times. 

1 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。

2 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。

3 shrines   

圣地，圣坛，神圣场所( shrine的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• All three structures dated to the third century and were tentatively identified as shrines. 这3座建筑都建于3 世纪，并且初步鉴定为神庙。
• Their palaces and their shrines are tombs. 它们的宫殿和神殿成了墓穴。

4 deserted   

adj.荒芜的，荒废的，无人的，被遗弃的

参考例句：

• The deserted village was filled with a deathly silence.这个荒废的村庄死一般的寂静。
• The enemy chieftain was opposed and deserted by his followers.敌人头目众叛亲离。

5 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

6 chapel   

n.小教堂，殡仪馆

参考例句：

• The nimble hero,skipped into a chapel that stood near.敏捷的英雄跳进近旁的一座小教堂里。
• She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played in chapel.那个星期天的下午，她在小教堂的演出，可以说是登峰造极。