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伦敦泰晤士河畔有一座方尖塔,它不但有悠久的历史,而且有一段惊险的经历。这座花岗岩方尖塔的故乡是埃及。三千五百年前,埃及的建筑师们跑遍全国找到一块完整巨大的花岗岩,制成了这座一百八十六吨的尖顶石塔,后来由成千上万的奴隶搬到尼罗河边,用木筏运至开罗,立在太阳神庙里。公元前十二年罗马帝国侵入埃及,把这座石塔作为战利品树立在亚历山大海岸。一千五百多年后,该塔被海水淹没。十九世纪,英国人发现了它,并决定把它搬到英国去。一位工程师为此设计了一个巨大的两面封口的钢圆筒,
London, the River Thames has a square tower, it not only has a long history, but also a thrilling experience. The hometown of this granite obelisk is Egypt. Three thousand five hundred years ago, Egyptian architects traveled all over the country to find a complete huge granite, made this one hundred and eighty-six tons spire stone tower, and later by tens of thousands of slaves moved to the Nile, Rafting to Cairo with rafts, standing in the Sun Temple. Twelve years before the Roman Empire invaded Egypt, the stone tower was set as a spoil on the Alexandrian coast. After more than 1500 years, the tower was inundated by sea water. In the nineteenth century, the British discovered it and decided to move it to England. An engineer designed a huge two-sided sealed steel cylinder,