她看到了这座建筑构筑于古城的北方悬崖上，足以俯瞰耶路撒冷的汲沦谷（Kidron Valley），她想象有那么个可以俯视王国全貌的理想高点；她想象腓尼基的木匠和石匠在公元前十世纪竖起了这座建筑；她又联想到了巴比伦人在四个世纪后毁了这座建筑。

She imagines the Phoenician carpenters and stonemasons who erected it in the tenth century B.C. She imagines as well the Babylonians who destroyed it four centuries later.

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大佛是在一片被阳光晒得发白的石壁上被开凿出来的，居高临下地俯视着他们。莱拉想象将近两千年之前，它们也是这样俯瞰着途经这座位于丝绸之路上的峡谷的商旅。

Chiseled into a 15 sun-bleached rock cliff, they peered down at them, as they had nearly two thousand years before, Laila imagined, at 16 caravans crossing the valley on the Silk Road.

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