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Stonehenge is a famous ancient monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, in the south of England: a ring of huge standing stones, some with other stones laid flat across their tops, with a smaller ring inside. It is roughly 4,000-5,000 years old, and nobody knows for certain why it was built.
StonehengeStonehenge is a famous ancient monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, in the south of England是英格蘭南部威爾特郡索爾茲伯里平原上一座有名的古代遺跡 a ring of huge standing stones一圈巨大的立石 some with other stones laid flat across their tops其中有些頂上還橫放著別的石頭 with a smaller ring inside裡面還有一個比較小的石圈 It is roughly 4,000-5,000 years old它大約有四、五千年的歷史 and nobody knows for certain why it was built沒有人確定它當初是為什麼蓋的
What we do know is that some stones line up with the sunrise at and the sunset at , so it clearly had something to do with the seasons and the sky. Beyond that, honest experts say 'probably': probably a burial place, probably a place for ceremonies.
What we do know is that我們確實知道的是 some stones line up with the sunrise at midsummer and the sunset at midwinter有些石頭會對準仲夏的日出和仲冬的日落 so it clearly had something to do with the seasons and the sky所以它顯然跟季節和天空有關 Beyond that除此之外 honest experts say 'probably'誠實的專家只會說「大概」 probably a burial place, probably a place for ceremonies大概是埋葬的地方,大概是舉行儀式的地方
You will often hear that the Druids built it. That is almost certainly wrong — the Druids came more than a thousand years later — although modern druids do gather there today, which keeps the story alive.
You will often hear that the Druids built it你常常會聽到說,這是Druids(德魯伊)蓋的 That is almost certainly wrong這幾乎可以肯定是錯的 the Druids came more than a thousand years laterDruids出現的時間晚了一千多年 although modern druids do gather there today不過現代的druids今天確實還是會在那裡聚會 which keeps the story alive讓這個說法一直流傳下去
Some of the smaller stones were somehow moved about 250 from Wales, and how people did that without machines is still argued about.
Some of the smaller stones were somehow moved about 250 kilometres from Wales有一些比較小的石頭,不知道怎麼從威爾斯搬了大約250公里過來 and how people did that without machines is still argued about而在沒有機器的情況下人們是怎麼辦到的,至今還在爭論
It is a proper noun, so always capital S, no 'the'. For a student it is best known as one of Britain's great tourist sights and a byword for something very old and mysterious.
It is a proper noun它是一個專有名詞 so always capital S所以永遠要用大寫的S開頭 no 'the'前面也不加「the」 For a Taiwanese student對台灣學生來說 it is best known as one of Britain's great tourist sights它最有名的身分是英國的一大觀光景點 and a byword for something very old and mysterious也是「非常古老又神秘的東西」的代名詞
組成From Old and Middle English: 'ston' (stone) + 'henge', probably related to 'hang' or 'hinge' — the flat stones lying across the tops look as if they hang there. So the name means something like 'the hanging stones'.
同家族的字
- stonethe first half of the name, in its older spelling
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Stonehengename/stəʊ̯nˈhɛnd͡ʒ/
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An ancient group of standing stones on Salisbury Plain in Amesbury parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1242).
- The collection of rocks is a national landmark that looks something like a Stonehenge on the prairie.
- Within weeks of winning the General Election in July 2024, the government halted a planned tunnel for the A303 past Stonehenge in Wiltshire. It stated that the £2 billion scheme was "poor value for money". […] The West of England line carries a tiny fraction of the volumes on the parallel road [A303], and Stonehenge is a nationally notorious bottleneck.
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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。