For over two millennia the ancient city of Petra has towered majestically over the Jordanian desert. Today its famed rose-red temples hewn into the rockface lie empty and silent.
古城彼特拉在約旦沙漠中雄偉矗立2000多年，如今城內鑿入瑰紅岩壁中的著名神殿，一片冷清死寂。
As the novel coronavirus spread around the world, Jordanian authorities imposed a lockdown, and the last tourists left on March 16, a day before the Hashemite kingdom closed its borders.
隨著新型冠狀病毒蔓延全球，約旦當局實施封鎖措施，最後一批觀光客於3月16日出境後，約旦（哈希米王國）隔天旋即對外關閉邊界。
"It’s the first time I’ve seen this place so empty. Usually there are thousands of tourists," said Nayef Hilalat, 42, who has worked as a guardian at the ancient archaeological site for a decade.
在這座考古遺址擔任警衛10年、42歲的希拉拉特說：「這是我第一次看到此地如此空蕩，以往這裡都會有數千名觀光客。」
"Every year at this time the place would be buzzing with people," he lamented, wearing a khaki cap bearing the Jordanian flag. "Today all we can hear is the birds singing."
他頭戴著有約旦國旗圖案的卡其帽，感歎道：「往年此時，這裡都會充滿嘈雜的人聲 ，如今只能聽見鳥鳴。」
One of the seven wonders of the world, and classified as a UNESCO world heritage site in 1985, Petra was once the capital of the nomadic Nabataean Arab peoples and dates back to at least 200 years BC.
被列為世界7大奇景之一的彼特拉，1985年獲聯合國教科文組織（UNESCO）列入世界遺產。彼特拉曾為遊牧民族納巴泰阿拉伯人的都城，歷史至少可追溯到公元前200年。
英倫翻譯轉自 https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1381470
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