monuments

It was used for inscription on Egyptian monuments as well as a variety of written texts on papyrus.

它既用作埃及纪念碑上的题字，同时又写成纸草文书上的各种文稿。

"It's the vengeance of the gods, " he said. "The cathedral is falling and the monuments to the ancient gods are what's causing it to fall. "

“这是神明的报复，”他说，“正是这些古代神明的雕塑致使得大教堂面临垮塌的危险。”

Now if you are going to look for monuments to the spirit of the Olympic movement, you've got to look elsewhere.

假如你想找什么奥运精神的纪念碑，那你恐怕要去别处看看了。

The Egyptian pyramids are massive monuments with a square base and four triangular sides rising up to a point.

埃及金字塔是巨大的历史遗迹，这是以正方形的为基底、四面成三角形不断上升直到汇聚到一点。

Being the last, he said the pressure Tianmen words must win, monuments it presents, which is a leopard.

正在最后一把，他才说此次压天门的话必定赢，古迹真的呈现了，天门是豹子。

No doubt about it, the Romans built monuments on a more epic scale than any previous Europeans, wowing their "barbarian" neighbors.

毫无疑问，罗马人超越了先前所有的欧洲人，创造了一个更为壮丽史诗般的纪念碑，让他们“野蛮的”邻居们拍手叫绝，惊叹不已。

The monuments, the streets, seem to be unchanged but the city itself that we wandered through is no longer ours.

纪念碑和街道看上去并无变化，但我们正漫步其中的城市本身，它已不再属于我们。

let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

那就让他们不受干扰而作为对平安的纪念碑吧，因为有了平安，错误的意见就可得到宽容，理性就得以自由地与之抗争。

a land founded on extraordinary customs and ritual, celebrated in monuments without equal, preserved in thousands of years of learning.

这片土地上传承着超乎寻常的风俗和仪式，竖立着独一无二的丰碑，并且在爱数千年的学习中孕育延续。

Mass tourism destroys any monuments and especially Khmer monuments for a very simple reason - the sandstone on which I sit with my nail.

众多游客可以毁坏任何纪念碑，尤其是谷美尔人的纪念碑，原因很简单——我脚下踩的这些砂岩。

All around the edge of Africa -- along the coastline, near the continents' ports -- are monuments to exploitation.

在非洲边缘的一些地方，沿着海岸线上，大陆港口附近矗立着很多关于剥削的纪念碑。

And now Armenia with its numerous historical monuments can rightly be called one of the most interesting places in the Old World.

时至今日，亚美尼亚众多的历史遗迹清晰地表明，在古代这是一片多资多彩的土地。

You don't have to spend all your time visiting museums and monuments. They are certainly worthy of your time, but ignore them for a day.

你不必把时间全花在参观博物馆和纪念碑上面。当然它们是值得你花时间的，但今天先忘掉它们。

It is not just that these buildings were, at least in part, monuments to national ambition, underpinned by urban, mercantile wealth.

这些建筑（至少部分）是为纪念国民雄心壮志而矗立于世，城市和商业带来的财富使其愈久弥坚。

It nestles between Nashville and Chattanooga with a county courthouse flanked by war monuments, and a Wal-Mart on the outskirts of town.

曼彻斯特坐落于纳什维尔和查塔努加两市之间，其县法庭两侧各有一战争纪念卑，且市郊外有一家沃尔玛超市。

What you read on these monuments of the Long Count are events that connected Maya rulers with ancestors and the divine.

从这些长计历纪念碑上得到的信息，只不过是玛雅统治者同先祖的一些联系而已。

When people get to the top of the United States Capital building with its white dome, they see many monuments.

人们登上美国国会大厦白色圆弯形屋顶的顶部时，可以看到许多纪念碑。

there were twenty other monuments, which did not disdain to bury their wonders in that chaos of black, deep, narrow streets.

还有其他二十来座古建筑物，并不耻于让自己巧夺天工的英姿湮没在这一片混乱的、窄小的、阴暗的深街之中。

And aside from the environmental benefit, it's a view of the worldwide monuments that we rarely get a chance to see.

除了环境可以受益外，这也使我们看到的全世界性的运动的为数不多的机会之一。

Small WondersPeople have always been fascinated by grand monuments and towering structures, yet the miniscule can be equally captivating.

雄伟的山岳和高耸的建筑总是令人心驰神往，但袖珍型的东西也一样使人着迷。