The only surprise, Haldar insisted, is that the village's earthworks held out for so long.

唯一令哈尔达感到惊讶的是，村子居然坚持了这么久。

Now, let's put all the information together: a large circular object surrounded by several earthworks and located across the Strait of Gibraltar.

现在，让我把所有的信息放在一起：一个巨的圆形物体，被几个土方工程包围，位于直布罗陀海峡对面。

They were on their way to the entrenchments that ringed the town — no shallow, hastily dug trenches, these, but earthworks, breast high, reinforced with sandbags and tipped with sharpened staves of wood.

是开到环城战壕中去----这些战壕不是仓促挖成的浅沟，而是用沙袋和尖头木桩防护着的齐胸高的泥土工程。

In fact, he once proposed an earthwork to the owners but was refused.

事实上，曾向业主提出一个土方工程，但遭到了拒绝。

From around 3,800 BC they started building communal tombs called long barrows and large earthwork enclosures, which may have been gathering places.

从公元前 3800 左右开始，开始建造被称为长形墓穴的公墓和型土建围墙，这些地方可能是人群的聚集地。

Then in 1968, they took part in the legendary show " Earthworks" at the Virginia Dwan Gallery in New York.

1968，参加了在纽约维吉尼亚德万画廊举办的“土方工程”传奇展览。

The earliest versions of Stonehenge were made of earthworks and ditches dug with tools made of antlers.

巨石阵最早的版本是由土木防御工事和鹿角做的工具挖出的壕沟所组成的。

About 5,000 years ago, earthwork enclosures known as henges began to appear.

约在 5000 前，开始出现了被称为圆阵的土质围墙。

Smithson was a huge fan of science fiction, and in 1967, he took the title of Brian Aldiss' " Earthworks" to describe his own form of art.

密森是科幻小说的超级粉丝，1967，用布莱恩·奥尔迪斯的《土方工程》来描述自己的艺术形式。

It was common for towns to develop around these castles, as inhabitants benefited from the protection offered by the moats, raised earthworks, and wooden palisades.

城镇在这些堡垒周围发展是很常见的，因为居民受益于护城河、凸起的土方工程和木栅栏提供的保护。

Here a vast circular earthwork known as a henge dominates the landscape.

这里圆形石结构的广阔圆形土方工程掌控着这片天地。

In spring 1970, Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt visited northern Utah to select a site to construct an earthwork.

1970春，罗伯特·密森和南希·霍尔特访问了犹州北部，选择了一个土方工程的施工地点。

We do know initial earthwork began in October  2021 and that the first residents are said to start moving in by 2030. But aside from that,   this project is mostly defined by its questions.

我确实知道最初的土方工程于 2021 10 月开始，据说第一批居民将在 2030 开始入住。但除此之外，这个项目主要是由它的问题来定义的。

In North America, long before the coming of maize farming, indigenous populations created the massive earthworks of poverty point in Louisiana, capable of hosting hunter gatherer publics in their thousands.

在北美，早在玉米种植到来之前，土着人群就在路易斯安那州建造了庞的波因特贫困地球工作，能够容纳成千上万的狩猎采集者。

But Rhodes was doubtless instrumental to the  defence of the town: he organized earthworks, water supplies, and even the production of a  rifled field-gun, nicknamed 'Long Cecil'.

但罗兹无疑对保卫该镇起到了关键作用：组织了土木工程、供水，并甚至生产了一门名为“长塞西尔”的线膛野战炮。

Most civil engineering projects need large amounts of surface materials like soil or rock to be moved, and this processing is called earthworks.

多数土木工程项目需要量表面材料， 如土壤或岩石， 需要进行搬运，这种处理过程被称为土方工程。

Though the earthworks are extensive, they could have been built gradually, over the centuries, by a population that was never particularly big.

尽管土方工程规模庞，但它可能是由数百的时间、由并不特别庞的人口逐渐修建而成的。

These giant earthworks served as the foundations of what were likely some of the tallest standing structures in North America.

这些巨的土方工程可能是北美一些最高的立式建筑的基础。

In fact, Monks Mound is the largest earthwork in North America.

事实上, Monks Mound是北美最的土方工程。

The people of the Central States lived either safely tucked away inside an array of moats, earthworks, fortifications, and huge pounded earth walls, or immediately outside the walls in suburban areas.

中部各州的人民要么安全地生活在一系列护城河、土方工程、防御工事和巨的夯土墙内，要么就住在城墙外的郊区。