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

“是啊，三条，”福吉，“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.

里面有巨怪、逃跑的新娘、狮身人面像和一个叫“男孩”的可怕怪物。

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，本节提到的这一尊尺寸极小。

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。

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。

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。

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可怕的东西了，然而他错了。

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

这座狮身人面像刻画的是一位黑人法老。

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

德国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尊文物运到德国只是做修复。

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。

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？

" Is this a riddle" ? Roone wanted to know. " Sphinxes always speak in riddles in the tales" .

" 这是个谜题吗？" 鲁尼想知道，" 传中斯芬克斯总是出谜题。"

But German curators now complain that as soon as the sphinx went back to Turkey the rest of the agreement was quietly shelved.

但是德国博物馆馆长抱怨一旦狮身人面像归还土耳其，协议的其他部分很快就会被束之高阁。

Asked about the return of the sphinx of Hattusa, which he personally oversaw, Mr Gunay explained that it went to a museum in Corum, “the very homeland of the sphinx”.

被问到他亲自监督的哈图沙狮身人面像的归还时，居纳伊解释，它去了乔鲁姆的一家博物馆，那里才是它真正的家。

The name gave Sam a jolt. " The sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler, " he blurted. " Do you know what that means" ?

这名字让山姆吃了一惊。" ‘斯芬克斯即是谜题，并非出谜题者'，" 他脱口而出，" 你知道那是什么意思吗？"

In May 2011 German and Turkish culture officials signed an agreement to return the sphinx as part of a wider accord on training curators, exchanging research and enabling loans of Turkish objects.

2011年5月德国和土耳其的文化官员签署了归还狮身人面像的协议，这个协议是馆长培训计划的延伸，也是考古研究和土耳其出借文物的交换条件。

Mr Gunay also forced the German government to return a massive sphinx (pictured) that had been removed in 1917 from Hattusa, the Bronze-Age capital of the Hittite empire.

居纳伊也督促德国政府归还1917年他们从青铜时代的赫梯帝国之都哈图沙拿走的一个巨型狮身人面像。

Taharqo's sphinx is a very sophisticated piece of political imagery, for it's not just a mix of north and south, it also combines the present with the long distant past.

除了南北特色的融合之外，塔哈尔卡的狮身人面像还有更为复杂的政治含义：它连接了当下与历史。

The form of the lion's mane and his ears closely resemble elements found on Ancient Egyptian sphinxes as far back as the 12th Dynasty, that's about a thousand years before this.

狮子的鬃毛和耳朵十分接近一千年前第十二王朝所釆用的雕刻形式。

It was a sphinx. It had the body of an over-large lion: great clawed paws and a long yellowish tail ending in a brown tuft. Its head, however, was that of a woman.

是斯芬克斯。它的身体像一头大得吓人的狮子：巨大的脚爪、黄色的长尾，尾尖有一丛毛。但它却长着一个女人的脑袋。