質問: 和訳をお願いします。 before it fell into ruin stonehenge must have had much of the grandeur of an egyptian temple, which, despite its circu-iar shape, in some ways it resembles, and that it was temple there can be little doubt. surrounded by a ditch and bank, it stood, as it were, upon a plinth, complete, classical in its iso-lation, and neolithic worshippers on its perimeter would watch the procession of priests about the ambulatory, and the great trilithons. it would be not unlike watching the performance of a play, and perhaps stonehenge is the prototype of the 'round' in which medieval miracle plays were presented, and ultimately of the ’wooden o' for which shakespeare wrote.
回答: うん。ぼくが https://okwave.jp/qa/q9506944.html で書いたように,やっぱりストーンヘンジだったね。環状列石だとはわかったけれども,特定できるかどうか気になってたんだ(笑)。 斜め読みして「アレかな?」と思い当たるだけの基礎知識がないと,こういう科学英文はわからないよ。