1·Visiting Angkor was the fulfilment of a childhood dream.
参观吴哥是一个儿时梦想的实现。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·These droughts, he realized, corresponded to the time of Angkor's fall.
他意识到，这些干旱从时间上与吴哥窟的毁灭相符。
3·Angkor was the world's largest pre-industrial city, growing to an area of about 390 square miles.
吴哥曾经是世界上最大的非工业化城市，占地增长到约390平方英里。
4·This was the period when the city of Angkor in present-day Cambodia went into rapid decline, a fact that some historians have blamed on invasions by the rival Siamese and Champa kingdoms.
这是吴哥在现在的柬埔寨快速衰退的一个时期，也是一些历史学家指责竞争者暹罗人和占婆王国入侵的事实。
5·Angkor may have suffered problems common to modern times, including deforestation, overpopulation, topsoil degradation and erosion.
吴哥可能已经遭受过和现代相同的问题，包括滥伐森林，人口过剩，表土退化和侵蚀。