But their surfaces bear witness to homely labor: Topping the tallest stone, once part of a trilithon, is a tenon—half of a mortise-and-tenon joint borrowed from woodworking. 但巨石的表面见证了平凡的劳动:曾是三石塔组成部分最高的那块巨石有一个凸榫——是从木材加工借鉴而来的半个榫臼接头。
To fit the upright stones with the horizontal lintels, mortice holes and protruding tenons were created.
为了将直立的石头与水平过梁相匹配,人们创造了榫眼和突出的榫头。
IELTS Reading
Starting from the 6th century BCE, they were fixed using a method called mortise and tenon, whereby one plank locked into another without the need for stitching.