Stone circles could be small, medium or massive — they would have taken a huge communal effort to build.

石圈可能是小型、中型或大型的——它们需要花费巨大的集体力量来建设。

Britain is home to other ancient stone circles.

英国是其他古代环形石构建筑的所在地。

A prehistoric stone circle emerges from a drying up reservoir.

一个史前环状巨石阵从干涸的水库中浮现出来。

The purpose of the stone circle is still hotly debated.

石圈的用途仍在激烈争论中。

It is called Stonehenge, and it is an ancient stone circle, older than the pyramids of Giza.

它就是巨石阵，这是一个古老的石圈，甚至比埃及的吉萨金字塔还要古老。

Were these stone circles part of a celestial calendar?

这些石圈是星历的一部分吗？

Each was once buried under turf-covered mounds and surrounded by a stone circle.

每个人都曾被埋在草皮覆盖的土丘下，周围环绕着石圈。

It consists of Iron Age stone circles that are more than 1,500 years old.

它由 1,500 多年历史的铁器时代石圈组成。

Plato wrote about red and black stone circles around the city.

柏拉图写过城市周围的红色和黑色石圈。

Historians in Britain say the act of building the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge may have been as important as its final intended use.

英国历史学家称，建设巨石阵的工作可能要跟巨石阵最终的用途一样重要。

Originally, the Sanctuary would have been two stone circles, one set within the other, and then around them and inside them were standing timber posts.

避难所原本应该是两个石圈，一个嵌在另一个内，然后在它们周围和它们内部都是立木柱。

At Stonehenge, for just one night of the year, people are permitted to spend time inside the stone circle that is believed to have been built between 5,000 to 3,500 years ago.

在巨石阵，每年只有一个晚上，人们可以在这个据信建于5000到3500年前的石圈里呆上一段时间。

Most of all Jean Grey, whose father, John Moffatt, was the custodian at Stonehenge in the 1930s, remembers the fun of the great stone circle being her extraordinary childhood playground.

最重要的是琴·格雷， 其父亲约翰·莫法特在 1930 年代担任巨石阵的管理员，她还记得巨大的石圈是她童年时期非凡的游乐场的乐趣。

The evidence of Nabta Playa, a stone circle in Egypt which dates to the 5th millennium BCE and has been interpreted as a prehistoric astronomical calendar, is a main cause for the belief that the Egyptians were the first astronomers.

纳布塔普拉雅石阵是埃及的一个石环，可以追溯到公元前 5 千年，被解释为史前天文历法，这是相信埃及人是第一批天文学家的主要原因。