If you think sphinx, you think correctly, the sphinx is an important figure in Egyptian and Greek art.

如果你回答斯芬克斯，那就对了，斯芬克斯身人面像是埃及和希腊艺术中重要形象。

The great sphinx is thousands of years old.

巨型身人面像已经有千年历史了。

He believed that the desert wind, shaped a natural land form to resemble a reclining sphinx.

他认为，沙漠中风塑造出了一个自然地形，就像一个躺着身人面像。

" Yes, three, " said Fudge. " And a sphinx. Well, good day to you."

“是啊，三条，”福吉说，“还有一头斯芬克司。好了，祝你顺心。”

It has trolls, runaway brides, the sphinx and a fearsome monster called the boy.

里面有巨、新娘、身人面像和一个叫“男孩”怕物。

Here it is now and, compared with the one at Giza, this sphinx is very small.

与吉身人面像相比，本节提到这一尊尺寸极小。

Insects that visit flowers at night to collect pollen, such as the sphinx moth, love them, too.

在夜间造访花朵采集花粉昆虫，如斯芬克斯蛾，也喜欢这些花。

He has done a lot of work at Kawa, north of Khartoum, where this sphinx came from.

曾在尼罗河岸工作多年，也在本节中身人面像发现地，即喀土穆北部卡瓦进行过大量考古挖掘。

A giant carving of the mythical creature, the sphinx lies in the sand near Giza famous pyramids in Egypt.

身人面像是一个巨型神兽雕塑，位于埃及著名吉金字塔附近沙地上。

The Prime Minister had hoped beyond hope that dragons and sphinxes would be the worst of it, but no.

首相侥幸地希望不会再出现比火龙和斯芬克司更怕东西了，然而他错了。

Because this man is unquestionably a black African, and this sphinx is the image of a black pharaoh.

这座身人面像刻画是一位黑人法老。

The most common iconography on ivory plaques are lions, sphinxes and winged goddesses which shows the Egyptian and Assyrian influences.

象牙牌匾上最常见肖像是子、身人面像和有翼女神，显示了埃及和亚述影响。

The sphinx smiled more broadly. She got up, stretched her front legs, and then moved aside for him to pass.

斯芬克斯笑得更亲切了。她站起来，伸直两条前腿，让到了一边。

The sphinx is one of a pair, the first was sent back to Turkey in 1924.

身人面像原来是一对，第一个已经在1924年还给土耳其。

So might some Egyptian sphinx have smiled.

一些埃及身人面像能也会微笑。

Spencer certainly is a cat. He's a sphinx cat; they don't have any fur. You don't like him do you?

斯宾塞绝对是只猫。它是斯芬克斯猫；这种猫没有毛。你是不喜欢它吗？

Germany maintained it had obtained the sphinx legally, whereas Turkish authorities argued that it had merely been sent to Germany for repair.

德国坚持说这个身人面像是他们合法获取，然而土耳其当局辩称当时把这尊文物运到德国只是做修复。

Documentation about the sphinxes was destroyed in bombing raids on Berlin in the second world war.

这对身人面像文件在二战期间毁于袭击柏林炸弹。

Next, he had an interest in the sphinx though it was only a specimen.

接下来，他对古埃及身人面像很感兴趣虽然它只是个样本。

An avenue of battered sphinxes leads to the awe-inspiring main entrance heralding the Temples of Karnak.

一条破旧身人面像大道通向令人惊叹正门，预示着卡纳克神庙。