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menhir

/men-hir/US // ˈmɛn hɪr //UK // (ˈmɛnhɪə) //

史蒂文斯,史丹利,史密斯,史蒂文斯先生

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Archaeology.

    • : an upright monumental stone standing either alone or with others, as in an alignment, found chiefly in Cornwall and Brittany.

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Examples

  • Then it would send its rays across the pool full on the face of the menhir, as it seemed.

  • I think that the fall of the menhir scared them, for they were yet tied where Evan left them, just before that.

  • The largest known is the Menhir of Locmariaquer in Morbihan, now fallen and broken.

  • Thus it is believed in many localities that a "menhir" in the neighbourhood turns on its axis at midnight.

  • Grey dolmen and grey menhir already stand there, by the last shores, memorials of his destiny.