金字塔英語閱讀

『壹』 英語閱讀寫作

1，About the pyramind.
2，5000 years old.
3,Twenty years.
4,Because there are wonderful treasures in the pyramind.(超了5個詞……含橘沒辦法…………)
5，We don't know.
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『貳』 一個英語閱讀題求助，不服氣

答案B是正確的啊。因為，在本段中「but perhaps the most important is that they were planned to last forever「這起了很大的作用，金字塔被修築來就是要last forever 的，就文章而言，再根據題目問的The most important reason ，還有plan一詞就有點design
的味道，但是二詞意思完全不同。你不要只看到in good condition還有the most 的嘛，還有這類題我之前也時常遇到，反復讀很重要，再說本文章提到修建方面比較多的嘛，滿意嗎？你是讀幾年級的哦？

『叄』 金字塔英文

Pyramids;Luxor;ThePyramids

在建築學上，金字塔指角錐體建築物。著襪爛指名的有胡夫金字塔，還有瑪雅金字塔、阿茲特克金字塔（太陽金字塔、月亮金字塔）等。相關古文明的先民們把金字塔視為重要的紀念性建築，如陵墓、祭祀地，甚至是寺廟。20世紀70年代開始，由於建築技術的演進，達到輕質化、可塑化、良好告配的空調與採光，有些建築師會從幾何學選取元素，現代金字塔式建築在世界各地被建造出來。

『肆』 金字塔的介紹（英文版）

Pyramids are distributed in Egypt and the Americas, including upper Egypt,

middle Egypt and lower Egypt in ancient Egypt, present-day Sudan and Egypt.

There are about 80 pyramids scattered in the lower reaches of the Nile. Among them.

The largest one is the Houf Pyramid, which is 146.5 meters high and 230 meters long at the bottom.

It is made of 2.3 million stone blocks with an average area of 2.5 tons each, covering 52,000 square meters.

譯文：

金字塔在埃及和美洲等地均有分布，古埃及的上埃及、中埃及和下埃及，今蘇丹和埃及境內。現在的尼羅河下游，散布著約80座金字塔遺跡。 大小不一，其中最高大的是胡夫金字塔，高146.5米，底長230米，共用230萬塊平均每塊2.5噸的石塊砌成，佔地52000平方公尺。

(4)金字塔英語閱讀擴展閱讀：

胡夫金字塔：

胡夫金字塔建於公元前2675年，是第四王朝第二位法老胡夫的墳墓；建造大金字塔花費了20多萬人；佔地13英畝，由230萬塊重達2.5噸的石頭建造而成。原高度146.59米。1889年在巴黎建造300米高的埃菲爾鐵塔之前，它是世界上最高的建築，但由於它的年代久遠，塔頂已經風化了。

端部剝離10米，現高136.5米，底座每側230米長，三角形角度51度，塔樓建築面積52.9萬平方米。

『伍』 英語閱讀理解請求支援!

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『陸』 急求一篇英語閱讀短文的中文翻譯，感謝

閱讀英文第一不是把英文讀成了中文，第二不是理解中文，第三不是用中文理解英文，那麼請問，翻譯成中文干什麼呢？請認真思考這樣到底能學會英文，還是在復習中文呢？

『柒』 埃及金字塔英文簡介基本內容

埃及金字塔，是古埃及法老和王後的陵墓，是世界公認的“古代世界八大奇跡”之一。下面是我為你整理的埃及金字塔英文簡介，希望對你有用!

埃及金字塔簡介
The Egyptian pyramids were built in the year 2600 BC, a total of more than 70 seats, most of which is located in the desert of the southwest of the Giza Plateau in Cairo, is one of the world's recognized "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World". Among them, the largest and most famous is the generation of three generations of pyramids - Khufu pyramid, Hafra pyramid and the door of the pyramid. Which, in turn, is the most pyramid, it is equivalent to a more than 40 layers of skyscrapers. It is said that there are 10 million people in the sun exposure and supervision of the workers under the whip, with a decade of time to build stone and underground graves, and spent 20 years to build a tower, the whole project lasted more than 30 years. It is generally believed that the pyramids are the tombs of ancient Egyptian pharaohs (kings).

Most of the sources of the study showed the number of pyramids in Egypt, and in 1842 Karl Richard Lepsius proced the List of Egyptian pyramids, when he counted 67, but in his later archaeological career More of the pyramids he identifies and discovers, and many inaccurate counts are related to many of the poorly preserved little pyramid wrecks and gravel mausoleums, and the wreckage is often difficult to confirm whether the tomb is a pyramid-type structure, but they are indeed The existence is also studied and identified by the archaeologists, most of which will be difficult to confirm the relics of the district classification, the number of groups calculated, which from north to south the most important observation range.

On December 26, 2007, the head of the Supreme Council of Egypt's monuments declared that Egypt would pay royalties by Egyptian monuments such as the Egyptian pyramids or human lion-like bodies through laws applicable to the world, as thousands of Pharaohs in Egypt Maintenance costs, but do not prohibit artists from all over the world to use paintings or other means to the Pharaoh monuments and Egyptian monuments to gain benefits, as long as these works "not 100% replicas" on it.

The pyramids are the tombs of ancient Egyptian slavery kings, which were historically called "Pharaoh". Ancient Egyptian devotion to God, so that it has long formed a deep-rooted "concept of the afterlife", they even think that "life is just a short stay, and after death is a permanent enjoyment." Thus, the Egyptians see the world as a continuation of earthly life. By this "concept of the afterlife", the ancient Egyptians alive, they are sincere, confidently prepared for the death. Every rich Egyptian man is prepared to prepare his own graves for himself and decorate the graves with all kinds of items for everlasting life. In the case of Pharaohs or nobles, he would spend years or even decades to build the graves and instruct the craftsmen to describe the sailing, hunting and feast of the frescoes and the wooden model As well as the labor of the servants, and so on, so that he can live in the same life as comfortable and happy. Ancient Egyptians call it "Maastaba". Later, there was a clever young man named Imjeepop, in the Egyptian Pharaoh left the king to design the grave, invented a new building method.

And finally built a six-story trapezoidal pyramid - this is what we see the pyramid of the embryonic form.

Look like the word "gold", so we call it "pyramid". The tower mausoleum of the design of the Yimuai Taipu is the first stone tomb in Egypt's history.

After the king left the Egyptian Pharaoh had to follow him, in his lifetime wantonly built their own graves, from ancient Egypt set off a pyramid to create a wind. As the pyramids originated in the ancient kingdom period, and the largest pyramid was built ring this period.

The ancient Egyptians proced the king's death to become God, "for him (Pharaoh) built heaven ladder, so that he can come to heaven." The pyramid is such a ladder. At the same time, the pyramid pyramid form also represents the worship of the sun god, because the ancient Egyptian sun god "pull" the sign is the sun light.

"Like the eyes of the same pull." Later, the ancient Egyptian obsession worship also have such significance, because the obelisk also said the sun's light.

The largest of all the pyramids of ancient Egypt is the pyramid of the fourth king of Pharaohs. This large pyramid is 146.59 meters high, after thousands of years of wind and rain, the top has been eroded nearly 10 meters. It was the tallest building in the world before the construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris in 1889. Khufu's pyramid, in addition to its large scale and amazing, but also with its high degree of architectural skills named. Between the stones of the tower, there is no cement and the like, but a stone stacked on top of another stone. Every stone is very flat, has been for thousands of years, even so, it is difficult to use a sharp blade inserted into the gap between the stones, so can not count down for thousands of years, it can not be said that A miracle in the history of architecture. In addition, in the big pyramid on the north side of the ground 13 meters above the ground there is a brick with four boulders into the entrance. This triangle is very clever, because if you do not use triangles and quadrilateral, then, more than 100 meters high pyramid itself, the enormous pressure will collapse the entrance. And with the triangle, so that the great pressure evenly spread out. In more than four thousand years ago, the mechanics of this understanding and use, to have such a structure, is indeed very great.

Soon after his death, he built a pyramid near his Great Pyramid. This is the pyramid of Khufu's son Hafra. It is 3 meters lower than Khufu's pyramid, but it seems to be taller than the Khufu pyramid because it's slightly above the ground. Near the tower built a carved Hafra's head and with the lion's body statue, the so-called Sphinx. In addition to the lion is built with stones, the whole Sphinx is in a huge natural rock chiseled. It has been 4500 years of history.

In the ancient Egyptian mythology, the lion is the guardian of the mysterious places, but also the guardian of the underground world gate. Because the death of Pharaoh to become a sun god, so to create such a Sphinx as Pharaoh guarding the door.

After the fourth dynasty, although the other Pharaoh built a lot of pyramids, but the size and quality can not be compared with the pyramid. After the sixth dynasty, with the ancient kingdom of the division and the decline of the power of the Pharaoh and the Egyptian people's resistance and some people's tomb, often Pharaoh's "mummy" from the pyramid dragged out, so the Egyptian pharaoh who will no longer build the pyramid , But in the mountains to dig a secret mausoleum.
埃及金字塔建造之謎
The construction of the pyramid does not have any documentation. There are several ideas for future generations. One is to use a huge lever, a rope tied with stones, the other end of the stone through the man to the top of the hanging, and then graally up the stones pile up. Another speculation is that with the mound into the slope, the use of wooden roller to pull up the stones, the mound is surrounded by pyramid spiral rise. It was also argued that the second method of mound removal was a big problem, and thus speculated that began to use mound and then leveraged. There is another, that is, alien manufacturing.

The construction of the pyramid, whose technology is used in modern standards may not be clever, but in their management and organizational ability to give us a silence proof. For example, the Great Pyramid of Khufu covers an area of 13 acres, with 2.3 million stones, each stone weighs about two and a half. The building, according to the estimated fee to 100,000 people twenty years of power.

However, there is another argument, in 2006, Philadelphia Dreiser University material engineering professor Barr Somme speculated that "the ancient Egyptians in the construction of the upper pyramid, the concrete is poured into the high mold, and Not the boulder haul to the height. "(The full text published in December 2006 of the American Ceramic Association journal), of course, this argument has also been questioned by many people, which they question whether the sampling of Balu Som is sampling to The cement used to repair the pyramid in modern times. The French architect Jean-Pierre Hu Dan on March 31, 2007 proposed "from the inside to the cover" argument, that is, in the Great Pyramid wall built an external slope, and then to build an internal spiral tunnel.
金字塔能
在全世界研究金字塔的浪潮中，真是一迷未解，一謎又起。說法越來越多，也愈來愈離奇，被它吸引的人也日益增加。近三十年來，忽然又冒出一項所謂“新發現”，在西方接連出版了幾十本洋洋灑灑的專著，上百篇的論文，成千上萬人在試驗、探討，它的熱潮正方興未艾。這項“新發現”就是當前響應歐美各國的“金字塔能”。它說的是金字塔形的構造物，其內部產生著一種無形的、特殊的能量，故稱之為“金字塔能”。據說，這種能量有著許多用途和奇特的功效。

故事 還得從頭講起。

20世紀40年代，一位名叫布菲的法國人來到埃及，進入胡夫金字塔內參觀。在胡夫墓室內，他發現一些干癟的小動物的屍體。看樣子它們自己跑進來，已死去很久。室內雖然並不幹燥，但屍體一點也不腐爛發臭。布菲十分納悶，沉思了一會，突然靈機一動，他想可能是金字塔形的建築使它們變成了木乃伊。回國後，他按胡夫金字塔千分之一的比例，用木板製作了一個缺底的小金字塔模型。他把模型按南北方向放置，在中軸線據塔底三分之一高的地方，即胡夫殯室的位置上安放了一隻剛死的貓。奇怪的現象發生了。過了一些日子，死貓成了一具木乃伊。布菲又對其他的有機物進行試驗，也得到了同樣的結果。此後，捷克無線電工程師卡里爾-杜拜爾偶然翻閱布菲的論文集時，讀到布菲用馬糞製作胡夫金字塔模型試驗情況。杜拜爾心想，這種實驗太容易了，不妨自己也來試試。於是，他用三毫米厚的馬糞紙，按胡夫金字塔的比例，做了幾個30厘米高的模型，進行第一次實驗。結果他吃驚地發現，放在模型內的牛肉、羊肉、雞蛋、花朵、死青蛙、壁虎等果然變干而不腐。實驗獲得初步成功後，他就與布菲通信，兩人保持著經常地聯系。

杜拜爾不斷地試驗，探討模型內究竟存在什麼能量。有一次，他將一把刮鬍子刀片放在模型內，滿以為它將變鈍，但結果卻相反，刀片變得更鋒利，他用這把刀片颳了50次鬍子。這樣，他就開始研究金字塔模型對刀片的影響。他做了一個15厘米高的模型，把刀片平放在塔內據塔底三分之一高的地方，刀片的兩端對准南北方向，模型本身也按南北放置。幾次試驗，結果雷同。一種極其簡單而又神奇的磨刀片器——馬糞紙的胡夫金字塔模型就這樣發明了。

1949年，杜拜爾正式向捷克首都布拉格有關部門申請注冊“法老磨刀片器”的發明權。在捷克，一般專利發明權至多3年即可批准，但這項編號為91304的發明經過了整整10年的周折，直到1959年才批下。其間，杜拜爾竭力說服專利委員會，並向委員會主席通了一個模型。該主席親自進行試驗。最後表示這項發明確有實效，它並不是什麼欺騙或 魔術 。與此同時，杜拜爾還探索模型磨刀片的原理。杜拜爾在一家無線電研究所工作，他可以了解當時世界上最新的科技情報。並充分利用所里的設備與儀器。他把實驗擴展到收音機、雷達、宇宙線和其他射線中，研究用馬糞紙這樣的絕緣體製成的金字塔模型，其內部的空間產生著什麼樣的震盪，這種震盪又和地球磁場與刀刃之間有什麼關系。最後，他得出一種假設，或稱為一個定理：來自太陽的宇宙微波，通過聚集於塔內的地球磁場，活躍了模型內的震盪波，使刀片“脫水”變鋒利。

興起和演變

金字塔是古埃及奴隸制國王的陵寢。這些統治者在歷史上稱之為“法老”。古代埃及人對神的虔誠信仰，使其很早就形成了一個根深蒂固的“來世觀念”，他們甚至認為“人生只不過是一個短暫的居留，而死後才是永久的享受”。因而，埃及人把冥世看做是塵世生活的延續。受這種“來世觀念”的影響，古埃及人活著的時候，就誠心備至、充滿信心地為死後做准備。每一個有錢的埃及人都要忙著為自己准備墳墓，並用各種物品去裝飾墳墓，以求死後獲得永生。以法老或貴族而論，他會花費幾年，甚至幾十年的時間去建造墳墓，還命令匠人以墳墓壁畫和木製模型來描繪他死後要繼續從事的駕船、狩獵、歡宴活動，以及僕人們應做的活計，等等，使他能在死後同生前一樣生活得舒適如意。

相傳，古埃及第三王朝之前，無論王公大臣還是老百姓死後，都被葬入一種用泥磚建成的長方形的墳墓，古代埃及人叫它“馬斯塔巴”。後來，有個聰明的年輕人叫伊姆荷太普，在給埃及法老左塞王設計墳墓時，發明了一種新的建築 方法 。

他用山上採下的呈方形的石塊來代替泥磚，並不斷修改修建陵墓的設計方案，最終建成一個六級的梯形金字塔——這就是我們現在所看到的金字塔的雛形。

在古代埃及文中，金字塔是梯形分層的，因此又稱作層級金字塔。這是一種高大的角錐體建築物，底座四方形，每個側面是三角形，樣子就像漢字的“金”字，所以我們叫它“金字塔”。伊姆荷太普設計的塔式陵墓是埃及歷史上的第一座石質陵墓。

左塞王之後的埃及法老紛紛效仿他，在生前就大肆為自己修建墳墓，從此在古埃及掀起一股營造金字塔之風。由於金字塔起源於古王國時期，而且最大的金字塔也建在此時期內，因此，埃及的古王國時期又被稱為金字塔時代。古代埃及的法老們為什麼要將墳墓修成角錐體的形式，即修成漢字中的金字形呢?

原來，在最早的時候，埃及的法老是准備將馬斯塔巴作為死後的永久性住所的。後來，大約在第二至第三王朝的時候，古埃及人產生了國王死後要成為神，他的靈魂要升天的觀念。在後來發現的《金字塔銘文》中有這樣的話：“為他(法老)建造起上天的天梯，以便他可由此上到天上”。金字塔就是這樣的天梯。同時，角錐體金字塔形式又表示對太陽神的崇拜，因為古代埃及太陽神“拉”的標志是太陽光芒。金字塔象徵的就是刺向青天的太陽光芒。因為，當你站在通往基澤的路上，在金字塔棱線的角度上向西方看去，可以看到金字塔象撒向大地的太陽光芒。

《金字塔銘文》中有這樣的話：“天空把自己的光芒伸向你，以便你可以去到天上，猶如拉的眼睛一樣”。後來古代埃及人對方尖碑的崇拜也有這樣意義，因為方尖碑也表示太陽的光芒。

古埃及所有金字塔中最大的一座，是第四王朝法老胡夫的金字塔。這座大金字塔原高146.59米，經過幾千年來的風吹雨打，頂端已經剝蝕了將近10米。在1888年巴黎建築起埃菲爾鐵塔以前，它一直是世界上最高的建築物。這座金字塔的底面呈正方形，每邊長230多米，繞金字塔一周，差不多要走一公里的路程。胡夫的金字塔，除了以其規模的巨大而令人驚嘆以外，還以其高度的建築技巧而得名。塔身的石塊之間，沒有任何水泥之類的粘著物，而是一塊石頭疊在另一塊石頭上面的。每塊石頭都磨得很平，至今已歷時數千年，就算這樣，人們也很難用一把鋒利的刀刃插入石塊之間的縫隙，所以能歷數千年而不倒，這不能不說是建築史上的奇跡。另外，在大金字塔身的北側離地面13米高處有一個用4塊巨石砌成的三角形出入口。這個三角形用得很巧妙，因為如果不用三角形而用四邊形，那麼，一百多米高的金字塔本身的巨大壓力將會把這個出入口壓塌。而用三角形，就使那巨大的壓力均勻地分散開了。在四千多年前對力學原理有這樣的理解和運用，能有這樣的構造，確實是十分了不起的。

胡夫死後不久，在他的大金字塔不遠的地方，又建起了一座金字塔。這是胡夫的兒子哈夫拉的金字塔。它比胡夫的金字塔低3米，但由於它的地面稍高，因此看起來似乎比胡夫的金字塔還要高一些。塔的附近建有一個雕著哈夫拉的頭部而配著獅子身體的大雕像，即所謂獅身人面像。除獅是用石塊砌成之外，整個獅身人面像是在一塊巨大的天然岩石上鑿成的。它至今已有4500多年的歷史。

為什麼刻成獅身呢?在古埃及神話里，獅子乃是各種神秘地方的守護者，也是地下世界大門的守護者。因為法老死後要成為成太陽神，所以就造了這樣一個獅身人面像為法老守護門戶。

第四王朝以後，其他法老雖然建造了許多金字塔，但規模和質量都不能和上述金字塔相比。第六王朝以後，隨著古王國的分裂和法老權力下降以及埃及人民的反抗和有些人的盜墓，常把法老的“木乃伊”從金字塔里拖出來，所以埃及的法老們也就不再建造金字塔，而是在深山裡開鑿秘密陵墓了。

嶄新理論近年來天文科技的發展有了震撼性突破。他們驚喜地發現，位於火星球體的物質形狀外表酷似金字塔，而且有著類似獅身人面像的面部特徵造型!這一重大發現透視出火星與金字塔二者之間有著某種令人激動的微妙聯系。而最近披露的消息說，開羅南部有一座神廟，其牆壁上發現有大量難以解釋的壁畫圖案，畫面清晰逼真地演繹著高速快車、宇宙飛船等現代產物，而其中一架飛機的形狀酷似美國數年前的阿帕齊755型飛機!是5000年前古埃及人大智大慧的預言，亦或是當時文明存在的遺跡?為什麼金字塔千古之謎會和火星有著剪不斷、理還亂的千絲萬縷的聯系呢?

有一玄妙理論來自於本世紀40年代美國預言家凱斯。埃德加·凱斯運用精神方法誘發潛在能量，據說當凱斯預言事物時，他身體平躺，雙目微閉，雙手交叉放在前額，這時一道閃電倏然出現，答案便由此而來。在此之後，15年，新的理論觀點稱法老墓准確對著某些星宿，或許希望著法老王死後早日升天。三座金字塔的排列與獵戶星宿極為相似，即兩顆是平行，一星稍偏離。此番專家霍格蘭提出了大膽的設想：大約一萬兩千年前，一場史無前例的災難毀滅了火星上的生物，而火星上那些掌握最高科技的人群先有準備，離開火星，逃往地球。假設如此，讓我們不妨浪漫地想像一下，21世紀的人類也許在不久的將來登上火星，找到我們真正的歷史，找到我們來時的路，找到我們原有的“家”。

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『玖』 英語六級閱讀精練、導釋：古埃及陵墓法老之謎

A Rich King Of Old Egypt

The kings of old Egypt were very rich and powerful, and their tombs tell much about their lives. Archeologists2 have looked for these tombs for many years. One man — Lord Carnarvon of England — was not an archeologist. But he was very much interested in the way people lived in Egypt long ago. He was given permission to dig for some of the old tombs in a place called the Valley of the Kings. 3 He hired4 an archeologist named Howard Carter to take charge . 5

For more than five years, the two men worked there with a group of diggers, but they found very little . Lord Carnarvon went back to England. Carter had almost lost hope of making an important discovery. But he kept on with the work.

Then one day in the fall of 1922 , one of his workers uncovered something that looked like a step cut into a rocky hill. He brushed away6 some loose stones and saw a second step below. It took four days to clear sixteen steps leading down into the hill. At the bottom of the steps, there was a wall of stone blocks. On the wall, they found the seal of a king called Tutankhamen.

When Lord Carnarvon heard the news, he sailed on the first ship to Egypt. They began the work of clearing out7 the tomb. It had to be done so carefully that it took six years to finish the job!

There were four rooms in the tomb. Three of them were piled high with boxes, vases, jewels, and many other beautiful things. There was a golden throne, several golden chariots, the king’s hunting bows, and even his gold-trimmed sandals. All these things were put near the king in case he should need them in his own special afterworld.

The fourth room held a huge , carved coffin. In it, there were three more coffins, one inside the other. The last one was made of gold, and in it was the body of Tutankhamen. The body had been prepared with chemicals and was tightly wrapped in cloth. A body that is protected in this way is called a mummy. There were three layers of cloth wrappings on the body, and a mask of pure gold.

All the things found in the tomb were taken to museums, andarcheologists have been studying them ever since. Because Tutankhamen was a king, everything he left behind is very beautiful and very valuable . The gold itself is worth millions of dollars.

But most important of all is the meaning of the objects themselves. They show how people lived in Egypt more than 3 , 000 years ago.

閱讀自測

Ⅰ. The following a re the meanings of the words in the passage , and try to fin d the correct words:

1. to employ———

2. to fold, bind———

3. to collect, gather———

4. agreement, approval———

5. to go by river, set out on a voyage———

Ⅱ. According to the p as sage , fill in the blanks with proper words or phrases :

1. Lord Carnarvon, who was not an_______ , employed Howard Carter to take_______ .

2. Without finding anything, Lord Carnavon went back to England while Carter_______ with it.

3. In the fall of _______, Carter and his workers found the tomb of Tutankhamen. The tomb was_______ with many valuable things, which were put near the king in case he should need them in his special_______ .

4. It was really a tough job to_______ the tomb for it took them six years to finish it.

5. The body that is protected with chemicals and tightly wrapped in cloth is called a_______ .

6. All the things found in the tomb were taken to_______ to let the archaeologists study. Its significance is that the objects show how people lived in_______ more than 3 , 000 years ago.

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參考答案

Ⅰ. 1. hire 2 . wrap 3. pile 4 . permission 5 . sail

Ⅱ. 1. archeologist / charge 2 . kept on 3 . 1922 / piled / afterworld 4. clear out 5. mummy 6 . museums / Egypt

參考譯文

古埃及陵墓之謎

古埃及的國王們非常有錢有勢, 而且他們的陵墓也顯現出他們的生活狀況。考古學家 們已經尋找這些墓群好多年了。有一個人——— 英格蘭的卡納馮勛爵——— 並不是考古學家, 可他對遠古時期埃及居民的生活方式非常感興趣。他獲得許可, 在一個叫帝王谷的地方發 掘某些古墓, 還雇了一位名叫霍華德· 卡特的考古學家來負責此事。

這兩人與一群挖掘工在那兒工作了五年多, 可收獲甚微。卡納馮勛爵返回了英格蘭。雖 然卡特對發現重要文物幾乎不抱什麼希望了, 但是他仍繼續工作。

1922 年秋季的一天, 一個工人挖到一些東西, 那東西看起來很像是切入岩石山的一級 台階。霍華德撥開一些松動的石塊, 看到下面又有一級台階。清理出通向小山深處的地下 的十六級台階花去了四天的時間。在最下面的一級台階旁, 有一堵石牆。在這堵牆上, 他 們發現了圖坦卡蒙國王的封戳。

卡納馮勛爵一聽到這個消息就搭乘最早一班航船駛回埃及。隨後, 他們開始對文物進 行挖掘清理。他們清理得非常仔細, 總共花了六年的時間才完工!

陵墓內有四間墓室, 其中三間都堆滿了箱子、花瓶、珠寶和其他許多漂亮的物品, 還有 一把金御座, 很多輛金戰車, 國王狩獵用的弓, 甚至還有鑲金邊的拖鞋。所有這些都放在國 王身旁, 以備他自己在與眾不同的陰世生活所需。

第四間墓室內存放著一口巨大的帶有雕刻圖案的棺材。這口棺材裡面一個套一個地 放了三層棺材。最內層的那個由黃金製成, 裡面放著圖坦卡蒙的屍體。屍體經過化學物品 的處理, 緊緊地裹在布里。以這種方式保存的屍體就是木乃伊。圖坦卡蒙的屍體裹了三層 布, 臉上戴著一幅純金面具。

在陵墓里發現的所有物品都被送到了博物館, 從此考古學家們一直致力於此項研究。 因為圖坦卡蒙是位國王, 他遺留下的所有東西都很漂亮也很貴重, 黃金本身就價值不菲。 但是, 最重要的還是物品本身的內涵。這些物品展現了三千多年前埃及人民的生活 狀況。

閱讀導評

圖坦卡蒙墓室之門被打開的一剎那, 時間凝固了, 人們不禁喟嘆: 原來, 歷史與現實竟 是一脈相連, 昨日與今天近在咫尺。注視著石棺, 人們發現古代埃及藝術恰恰反映了一種 宗教信仰: 與永恆的來生相比, 現世的生命只不過是一個短暫的插曲。各階層人們搜集來 用於陪葬的物品則為我們今天研究歷史提供了契機。

閱讀導釋

1. 本篇講述的是古埃及第十八王朝國王圖坦卡蒙( 1361—1352 BC 在位) 的陵墓。雖然該 陵墓與古埃及歷史上其他有名的法老的金字塔相比, 簡直就是“ 小巫見大巫”, 但是它的 發現卻震驚了全世界, 因為它是古埃及唯一的一座未遭盜掘的王陵。這為今人提供了距 今三千多年前古埃及墓葬狀況的活生生的完好例證。提起古埃及, 大家會想到一些詞 匯: 金字塔( pyramid) , 法老( pharaob) , 木乃伊( mummy) , 帝王谷( the Valley of the Kings) 。

2. 這個詞也可寫作archaeologist,“考古學家”的意思。

3. 帝王谷。帝王谷是個充滿神秘和傳奇色彩的地方, 是畢班·埃爾·穆魯克的古埃及帝王 陵墓建築群所在地, 坐落在尼羅河( the Nile) 西岸底比斯山的懸崖峭壁上。新王國 ( New Kingdom, 約1552—1069 BC) 時期, 古埃及人在這些人跡罕至的峭壁上, 開鑿了 許多岩窟, 用來安放國王及達官貴人的遺體。從新王國第十八王朝的第三位國王圖特摩 斯一世( Tuthmosis Ⅰ) 開始, 直到第二十王朝最後一位法老拉美西斯十一世( Ramses Ⅺ) 都葬於此。考古學家自1817 年開始至今在這里發現了62 座墳墓, 圖坦卡蒙的墓是 唯一完整的一座。

4 - 5. 在這個句子中, hire 是“ 僱傭”的意思, 與employ 同義。take charge 指“ 開始管理, 接 管”, 如: John was elected the new president of the club and will take charge at the next meeting. ( 約翰已當選為俱樂部的新會長, 在下一次會議時將主持會務。)

6. 這個片語的意思是“刷去, 撣掉, 推開”。brush 的本義是指“ 刷子”, 這里用作動詞, 意思 是“ 刷, 撣, 拂擦”。 7. 這個片語的意思是“清除, 出空”, 如: clear out a closet ( 把壁櫥出空) ; All these hospital expenses have cleared me out. ( 這一筆筆住院費把我的積蓄都花光了。

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