By Colleen Mart
Vocabulary:
In recent centuries, many of the sites have been neglected[3], with reports of the stones being used as sheep shelters, chicken sheds or even ovens. Even more commonly, stones have been removed to make way for roads, or as building materials. The continuing management of the sites remains a controversial topic.
5. hold water: 符合逻辑，站得住脚。
既然排除了墓穴和军用的可能性，考古学家断定，它唯一的用途可能就是宗教崇拜。许多研究者都有共识，巨石文明崇拜自然，尤其崇拜太阳。一些人认为，巨石阵乃是天文台。然而，这方面的大量研究一次又一次地表明巨石阵与太阳有紧密关联。
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8. Megalithic: (考古的) 巨石造成的，使用巨石的。
（来源：英语学习杂志）
对于任何太阳崇拜者来说，卡纳克都是一个理想之所。这里，太阳几乎每天都会露面，因为这里具有一种（独特的）微气候。卡纳克位于布列塔尼海岸，是墨西哥湾与欧洲大陆的会合处。它还受到一个名为“基伯龙”的半岛的庇护。因此，卡纳克每年都得以拥有2,053小时的光照，四月过后每天都有7小时沐浴在阳光中。而正是在这里，我们发现了令人震撼的巨石阵，一切突然变得易于解释了。对这个说法还有更多证据，克拉融海湾的微气候一直延伸到埃尔德旺北部——正是凯尔泽欧巨石阵的所在地。从此往北就再没有任何石阵出现了。
One such concentration of stones can be found near Erdeven; the other concentration of stones stands back to the north of Carnac. The most western is that of Menec, where there are 1,099 standing stones in 12 rows. One stone towers above[6] all others, and is thus labelled “the giant”, measuring 3.70 metres. Most of the stones are, however, relatively small, in comparison to the stone row of Kermario, to the east of the row of Menec. Kermario counts 1,029 stones, distributed in ten rows. The field measures 1,120 metres, showing that the stones are roughly one metre apart. This field has the most gigantic[7] stones, and is continued in the field of Kerlescan, where there are 594 stones, in 13 rows and over 880 metres.
Major archaeological[4] interest in the stone rows only happened in the latter half of the 20th century. These archaeologists originally believed that rather than a series of stone rows, there was in origin just one major stone row, covering a distance of more than eight kilometres. Soon, research revealed that this “single stone row” theory did not hold water[5]; it seemed that there were mainly three stone rows, each containing approximately 1,000 stones.
10. well-versed: 熟练的，精通的。
濒临大西洋的卡纳克是位于法国布列塔尼半岛一个神秘的小镇。它的郊外散布着一片片整齐排列的石阵，在长达8千米的范围内到处是林立的巨石，这就是著名的卡纳克石阵，被英国考古学家海丁翰教授称为“比金字塔更神秘”的石柱群。