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。

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。

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，斯芬克斯狮身人面像是埃及和希腊艺术中的重要形象。

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 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。

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 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。

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。

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尊文物运到德国只是做修复。

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说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。

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？"

What's the evidence that the Egyptologists use to make the attributions that they do for the dating of the Pyramids and the Sphinx?

埃及古物学家使用什么证据来对金字塔和狮身人面像进行年代鉴定？

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，居纳伊解释说，它去了乔鲁姆的一家博物馆，那里才是它真正的家。

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。

The Opet Festival at Thebes prompted a procession  from Karnak temple to Luxor Temple, along the sphinx avenue. The Festival of Drunkenness  involved five days of drinking in honor of Hathor.

底比斯的 Opet 节促使游行队伍沿着狮身人面像大道从卡纳克神庙到卢克索神庙。醉酒节包括为纪念哈托尔而饮酒五天。

Early last year Turkey stepped up the pressure, indicating that it would not renew the licences of the German archaeology institute, the biggest foreign group working in Turkey, unless the sphinx was sent home.

去年年初土耳其增大了压力，明确指出除非归还狮身人面像，否则就不会更新德国考古研究所（土耳其最大的外国工作团）的执照。