日本語訳を! 7-(3)
お願いします。
(9) Your transport barge snakes its way up one of the heavily trafficked canals that connects the Nile to the Mouth of the Lake, a delivery area near the pyramid complex. Barges loaded with stone and wood for building choke the canals, alongsidd barges loaded with food and supplies for the gangs of workmen, gangs of a thousand men with names like those found in later pyramid―"Friends of Menkaure" and "Drunkards of Menkaure." Is it the vastness of the construction project that makes you stagger? Or is it the people? So many people! Thousands!
(10) The clang of copper hammers trimming limestone and inscribing stone makes your head ache. On the south side of the pyramid, men are pounding wood wedges into the rock walls of the quarry and then soaking the wood with water. The wood expands and the rock splits.
(11) Watch out! You are jostled by two men hustling past with clay jars slopping water. They slosh it onto mud-covered wooden tracks. Eight men push a block of limestone so large you can't imagine it moving, yet it glides over the slick, wet mud as if the stone were hollow and filled with feathers. Above you, on the wide, wedge-shaped ramp built out of broken bits of stone and rubble, there are more groups of men pushing two-and-a-half-ton blocks with the same ease as the men ay your side. Still more crews at the top of the ramp are positioning the stones by lifting them into place with ropes and levers. When it is done, 2,300,000 blocks will have been hauled into place. Some of the stones inside the pyramid are granite cubes weighing as much as 40 tons.
お礼
どうもありがとうございました。 勉強になりました。