新概念英语青少年版第四册第5课:Pompeii

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Revision Lesson 5

复习课 5
Television Day:Pompeii
电视日:庞贝
This is the city of Pompeii.

这就是庞贝城
It is 13 miles south of Naples in Italy
它位于意大利那波勒斯南部13英里的地方
You can see a few tourists in the streets
在街上您能见到有些游客
You can see the volcano,Vesuvius,in the background
您能看到在它后面的维苏威火山
It all looks very peaceful.
它看上去十分平静
Yet nearly 2000 years ago,in 79 A.D.,
可是约在2000年以前,即公元79年
there was a terrible earthquake.
这儿曾发生了一场可怕的地震
No one expected it.
没人曾预料到这场地震
One quiet morning in August,Vesuvius erupted.
8月里宁静的一天早晨,维苏威火山爆发了
and hot ash and stones fell on Pompeii for nearly two whole days.
整整2天,灼热的灰烬和石块向庞贝城落下来
Everywhere in the city people died suddenly.
全城的人突然遭到了灭顶之灾
Everyone was busy at the time.
当时,人人都在干活
The baker was baking bread;
面包师在烤面包
shopkeepers were shutting their shops;
店主们正在关店门
people were crossing the streets...
人们在穿行街道
but the lava from the volcano covered everything.
可是火山喷射出的岩浆把一切都覆盖上了
The city disappeared.
城市顿时消失
Many hundreds of years later,in 1748
数百年以后,在1748年
a water engineer accidentally found some interesting objects.
一位水文工程师偶然发现了一些有趣的物件
Over a hundred years passed before,
又过了一百多年
little by little,archaeologists uncovered the city
考古学家才一点一点挖出了这座城市
You can still see the marks of wheels in the streets,
您现在仍然能看到街上的车辙
the loaves of bread at the baker's and the alphabet on the schoolroom wall!
面包房里的面包,教室墙上挂着的字母表

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