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

如果回答斯芬克斯，那就对，斯芬克斯狮身人面像是埃及和希腊艺术中的重要形象。

The great sphinx is thousands of years old.

巨型狮身人面像已经有千年的历史。

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

他认为，沙漠中的风塑造出一个自然地形，就像一个躺着的狮身人面像。

" 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，顺心。”

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

里面有巨怪、逃跑的新娘、狮身人面像和一个叫“男孩”的怕怪物。

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

与吉萨的狮身人面像相比，本节提到的这一极小。

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的昆虫，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，也在本节中狮身人面像的发现地，即喀土穆北部的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.

狮身人面像是一个巨型神兽雕塑，位于埃及著名的吉萨金字塔附近的沙地上。

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的东西，然而他错。

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

这座狮身人面像刻画的是一位黑人法老。

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

象牙牌匾上最常见的肖像是狮子、狮身人面像和有翼女神，显示埃及和亚述的影响。

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。她站起来，伸直两条前腿，让到一边。

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

狮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.

一些埃及狮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。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.

德国坚持说这个狮身人面像是他们合法获取的，然而土耳其当局辩称当时把这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.

这对狮身人面像的文件在二战期间毁于袭击柏林的炸弹。

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

接下来，他对古埃及的狮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.

一条破旧的狮身人面像大道通向令人惊叹的正门，预示着卡纳克神庙。