英语听力：自然百科 圣河之旅 The Nile尼罗河—27

 This is absolutely breath taking, it is actually quite hard to believe in some ways the Egyptians did what they did when they did it, at a time when the rest of the planet, or most of it anyway was in intellectual darkness, the Egyptians were creating magic and mystery and stuff that lasts.

In its day the temple attracted pilgrims from across the ancient world.

This the temple to the God Isis which is absolutely central to the story of the Nile because ancient Egyptians believe that the river was swollen¹ by her tears.

The temple bears witness * make shifts in our history, to the rise and fall of civilizations.

The stones here tell us an astonishing story, they are covered in inscriptions² and graffiti, and here we've got a last known text written in hieroglyphics³, the last gust⁴ of a culture and civilization that has endured centuries, bit of writing here and then it's gone.

1 swollen   

adj.肿大的，水涨的；v.使变大，肿胀

参考例句：

• Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着，她的双腿已经肿了。
• A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她，她的手臂肿起来了。

2 inscriptions   

（作者）题词( inscription的名词复数 )； 献词； 碑文； 证劵持有人的登记

参考例句：

• Centuries of wind and rain had worn away the inscriptions on the gravestones. 几个世纪的风雨已磨损了墓碑上的碑文。
• The inscriptions on the stone tablet have become blurred with the passage of time. 年代久了，石碑上的字迹已经模糊了。

3 hieroglyphics   

n.pl.象形文字

参考例句：

• Hieroglyphics are carved into the walls of the temple. 寺庙的墙壁上刻着象形文字。
• His writing is so bad it just looks like hieroglyphics to me. 他写的糟透了，对我来说就像天书一样。

4 gust   

n.阵风，突然一阵（雨、烟等），（感情的）迸发

参考例句：

• A gust of wind blew the front door shut.一阵大风吹来，把前门关上了。
• A gust of happiness swept through her.一股幸福的暖流流遍她的全身。