遗失的法老城市17

The clue to what the ancient Egyptians did to Piramess 3000 years ago lies hidden in the middle of an unassuming field in modern day Qantir. Here are the feet of one of the many colossal¹ statues that Rammesses the great built at Piramess. The rest of the statue is somewhere else.
But he is not at all with us. There's bound to be some displacement² to be expected.But the rest of them will turn up somewhere.
The feet of some statues at Tanis have been left behind at Qantir when the ancient Egyptians did some thing incredible. They moved their city,and they moved it to where the new branch of the Nile now flowed. Piramess was abandoned and in new town, new residents also build up along the Tanitic Branch of the Nile. This was Tanis. It was at last possible to solve the mistery of the heart of the story of Piramess. How it ended up being in 2 places at once?About 150 years after Rammesses's death, when the river around Rammesses silted³ up, the city ceased to function. Unwilling⁴ to abandon the splendid place, the ancient Egyptians decided⁵ to move the entire city to where the Nile had moved to. Slowly Piramess was disassembled block by block, statue by statue. It was a monumental feet undertaken to keep alive one of the greatest cities ever created. The largest statues weighed up to 1000 tons.

1 colossal   

adj.异常的，庞大的

参考例句：

• There has been a colossal waste of public money.一直存在巨大的公款浪费。
• Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.那座城市里的一些高层建筑很庞大。

2 displacement   

n.移置，取代，位移，排水量

参考例句：

• They said that time is the feeling of spatial displacement.他们说时间是空间位移的感觉。
• The displacement of all my energy into caring for the baby.我所有精力都放在了照顾宝宝上。

3 silted   

v.（河流等）为淤泥淤塞( silt的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）淤塞

参考例句：

• The riverbed is silted up, so there's no outlet for the floodwater. 河道淤塞，水无出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The river is silted up and the water flows sluggishly. 河道淤塞，水流迟滞。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 unwilling   

adj.不情愿的

参考例句：

• The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
• His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。

5 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。