the great sphinx

The Great Sphinx of Giza appears to be no different.

吉萨的古埃及狮身人面像好像没什么不同。

The team spent more than three weeks in the western German city of Duisburg working on the 16.68 metre ( 54.72 feet) artwork, which included a sandy replica of the Great Sphinx of Giza, Venice's Rialto Bridge and the graveside of Elvis Presley.

这个雕塑家团队花费了三周多的时间，在德国西部城市杜伊斯堡建造了这一16.68米（54.72英尺）高的艺术作品，其中包括吉萨大狮身人面像，威尼斯里亚托桥和埃尔维斯·普雷斯利墓地的沙质复制品。

The Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are nearby.

雄伟的金字塔和狮身人面像就在附近

As you summit a massive sand dune, you catch the first glimpse of the Great Pyramid, flanked by two smaller pyramids and the infamous stone-faced sphinx. Now, the reality.

登上大沙丘之巅，终于目睹了雄伟的吉萨大金字塔（the Great Pyramid），两座护卫在侧的小金字塔，当然还有神话中恶贯满盈的斯芬克斯石像。

Of course the site that is most synonymous with the image of Egypt is the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx at Giza.

毋庸置疑，最具埃及风格的是大金字塔和吉萨的斯芬克斯（Sphinx，带翼的狮身女怪）。

This theory has few modern adherents, but if true it would mean the Great Sphinx of Giza is even more mysterious than previously believed.

现代人很少有人支持这一理论，但如果事实果真如此，这将意味着狮身人面像要比我们之前想象的还要神秘。

Despite its reputation as one of the most famous monuments of antiquity, there is still very little known about the Great Sphinx of Giza.

尽管狮身人面像作为世界上最古老的雕像之一而享誉世界，但是世人对它仍知之甚少。

The beginning of one story about the Great Sphinx is written on a stele between the sphinx's paws.

关于狮身人面像的传说被刻在位于他两爪之间的石碑上。

The figures are found all over the world in different forms, but they are most commonly linked with Egypt, which features the most famous example in the form of the Great Sphinx of Giza.

世界各地都发现了这类雕像，形态各异。然而说到狮身人面像，人们主要想到的还是埃及，那里有最著名的狮身人面像。

The Great Sphinx is located in Egypt on the Giza plateau, about six miles west of Cairo.

狮身人面像位于埃及的加扎高原，首都开罗以西大约6里。