It was ground up and turned into a deep blue pigment known as ultramarine.

石色被磨碎并变成一种深蓝色素——深蓝色。

Smaller bluestones were also brought to the site from Wales, a journey of over 250 kilometres!

较小的石也从威尔士带到了这个地方，行程超过 250 公里！

Lapis lazuli or lazuli is a rock.

金石石是一种岩石。

'Did you write this? ' The old man smelt of cordite and tobacco.

“这是你写的吗？”老人身上有一股堇石和烟草的味道。

It was definitely a different feeling to step on bluestone slabs rather than soppy mud.

踩在石板上的感觉绝对不同，而不是泥泞的。

His materials for works like these include solid gold, lapis, lazuli, rubies, amethysts, emeralds diamonds.

他创作此类作品的材料包括纯金、金石、石、红宝石、紫水晶、祖母绿钻石。

Xiangyun got drunk and went outside to cool off, falling asleep on a blue stone bench behind the rockery.

祥云喝醉了， 出去凉快，在假山后面的石长凳上睡着了。

Some of the smaller stones, called bluestones, are believed to have been brought from Wales, more than 140 miles or 225 kilometers away.

其中一比较小的石头，称作石，被认为来自威尔士，运送超过了 140 英里，也就是 225 千米的距离。

In one place the ground had been trodden down by the cattle; they had to step on large green stones put here and there in the mud.

有一个地方给牲口踩得陷了下去；只好踏着烂泥中稀稀落落的石，才能走过。

Radiocarbon dating has revealed that work continued at Stonehenge until roughly 1600 BCE, with the bluestones in particular being repositioned multiple times.

放射性碳测年显示，巨石阵的工作一直持续到约公元前 1600 年，尤其是石被多次重新定位。

Those streets were mostly paved with large bluestone slabs, so there was no risk of having to slosh through mud even on rainy days.

这街道多铺有石板，因此即使在雨也不必在泥泞中晃动。

According to one long-standing theory among archaeologists, Stonehenge's builders fashioned sledges and rollers out of tree trunks to lug the bluestones from the Preseli Hills.

根据考古学家长期以来的一项理论，巨石阵的建造者用树干制作了雪橇和滚轮，以便从普雷塞利山拖出石。

The bluestone slabs that paved these streets were as large as bedsteads, and he felt rather uneasy as he stepped onto them for the first time.

铺成这街道的石板和床架一样，他第一次踏上它们时感到相当不安。

More recent archaeological hypotheses have them transporting the bluestones with supersized wicker baskets on a combination of ball bearings and long grooved planks, hauled by oxen.

最近的考古假设认为，他们用滚珠轴承和长槽木板组合而成的超柳条篮运输石，并由牛拉动。

Slight modifications had been made to the tree trunk, and there were two bluestone slabs tucked under either end of it, transforming it into a crude bench.

树干做了一细微的修改，两端两端夹着两块石板，把它变成了一个简陋的长凳。

After centuries of being trodden on by people, horses, and carriages, the high-quality bluestone slabs had already been polished to the point that they were as smooth as mirrors.

经过几个世纪的人、马和马车的踩踏，高质量的石板已经被抛光到像镜子一样光滑的程度。

Several hundred years later, it is thought, Stonehenge's builders hoisted an estimated 80 bluestones, 43 of which remain today, into standing positions and placed them in either a horseshoe or circular formation.

据认为，数百年后，巨石阵的建造者将约 80 块石吊起，并以马蹄形圆形的形式竖立起来，其中 43 块至今仍保留下来。

Although they are smaller than the massive sarsens, the bluestones still weigh an average of 4 tons each, and archaeologists are baffled as to how they were transported so far without modern technology—or even the wheel!

尽管石比巨的砂岩残块要小，但每块仍平均重达 4 吨，考古学家非常疑惑人们是怎样运输了如此远的距离，在没有现代工具甚至没有轮子的情况下！

Davos did not deny it. " At Storm's End you wore red-gold armor, with inlaid lapis flowers on your breastplate" . He reached down a hand to help the other man to his feet.

戴佛斯没有否认。" 记得在风息堡，您穿着红金甲胄，胸甲上镶有石色的花。" 他伸手扶老人站起。

Challenging the classic image of industrious builders pushing, carting, rolling or hauling giant stones from faraway Wales, some scientists have suggested that it was glaciers, not humans, that carried the bluestones to Salisbury Plain.

一科学家挑战了勤劳的建筑工人从遥远的威尔士推、运、滚拖巨石的经典形象，他们认为是冰川，而不是人类，将石带到了索尔兹伯里平原。