All comers to the Sphinx were asked a riddle, and failure to solve it meant death.(所有来到斯芬克斯面前的人都被问了一个谜语,解答不了就意味着死亡。)
Once a year, the king made a new riddle.(国王每年都会编一个新的谜语。)
Suddenly you fancy you see the answer to the riddle.(突然间你设想自己看到了谜底。)
The answer to this riddle is very interesting to me.(这个谜题的答案让我非常感兴趣。)
Nature is indeed like a riddle, some areas of which are beyond the reach of science and technology, at least in the foreseeable future.(大自然确实像一个谜,其中一些领域是科学技术无法触及的,至少在可预见的未来是这样。)
This is the riddle you have to solve.(这是你必须要解决的谜题。)
The answer to this riddle lies in the metabolic activity of early photosynthetic life-forms that slowly but surely transformed the chemical composition of Earth's atmosphere.(这个谜题的答案在于早期光合生命形式的新陈代谢活动,这种活动缓慢但一定改变了地球大气的化学成分。)
Everyone was puzzled about how to solve this new riddle.(每个人都为如何解开这个新谜语感到困惑。)
Kiddies, let's guess a riddle before our class, OK?(在上课之前,小朋友们,我们猜个谜语,好不好?)
"I will give a prize to the person who can solve my riddle," the king said.(国王说:“谁能猜中我的谜语,我就给谁一份奖励。”)