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千古之谜纳斯卡的神秘图案 　　翻译：郑远涛 　　Mystic Place: Nazca Lines 　　World’s Greatest 1)Scratch Pad 　　In the hot desert of southwest Peru, between the Andes Mountains and the Peruvian coast, lies what many have called one of the most puzzling 2)enigmas of 3)archeology. Huge 4)geometric patterns and spirals, animal figures, and thousands of perfectly straight lines are 5)etched onto the desert’s surface. The last of them were drawn about a thousand years ago. Known as the Nazca lines, the drawings have 6)confused scientists since they were first discovered in the 1920s. 　　From ground level, the earth drawings seem like a confusing mass of lines. It’s only when viewed from the air that one sees how the lines and figures show a sense of purpose and organization. But what is the purpose? And how did they get such large drawings one of the lines is 65 kilometres long, and some of the animal drawings are more than two soccer fields in lengthso 7)precise? 　　Ever since the founder of Peruvian archeology, Julio Tello, first recorded the lines in 1926, scientists have spent years puzzling over the 8)riddle of the Nazca lines. Still, not one clear theory exists today that answers these basic questions, making the drawings one of the world’s most 9)fascinating unsolved mysteries. 　　 　　Thousands of Lines, Hundreds of Patterns 　　10)Scattered over about 500 square kilometres of dry 11)plateau between two river valleys around the city of Nazca, perhaps the most famous of the drawings are the 12)biomorphic figures: a spider, a monkey, a whale, a snake, a lizard, a flower, a man and 18 bird shapes. There are about 50 of these figures ranging in size from 25 metres to 275 metres long. 　　Most of the desert has perfectly straight lines of 1,300 kilometres, some as narrow as 6 inches(15 centimetres)and others as wide as hundreds of metres, 13)crisscrossing or running 14)parallel to each other. There are also 300 geometric figures, mostly 15)trapezoids, triangles, zig-zags and spirals. 　　 　　T