Ms Rihll mixes delight at the ancients' ingenuity with contempt for the way their work was obscured by vague and ignorant contemporary chroniclers, as well as by later scholars keen to peddle pet theories rather than look at the evidence.
Ms Rihll mixes delight at the ancients' ingenuity with contempt for the way their work was obscured by vague and ignorant contemporary chroniclers, as well as by later scholars keen to peddle pet theories rather than look at the evidence.
古人的心灵手巧让里尔感到高兴，而愚昧无知的当代编年史作家，还有后来热衷于兜售热门理论而不注重证据的学者，他们对古人劳动成果的漠视，又为她所不齿。