[by:英语听力网|http://yingyu.chazidian.com||查字典英语网] [00:00.00]喜欢chazidian.com,就把chazidian.com复制到QQ个人资料中!Revision Lesson 5 [00:01.89]复习课 5 [00:03.79]Television Day:Pompeii [00:06.57]电视日:庞贝 [00:09.35]This is the city of Pompeii. [00:11.18]这就是庞贝城, [00:13.01]It is 13 miles south of Naples in Italy. [00:15.33]它位于意大利那波勒斯南部13英里的地方. [00:17.66]You can see a few tourists in the streets. [00:19.63]在街上您能见到有些游客 [00:21.60]You can see the volcano,Vesuvius,in the background. [00:24.08]您能看到在它后面的维苏威火山. [00:26.57]It all looks very peaceful. [00:28.34]它看上去十分平静. [00:30.12]Yet nearly 2000 years ago,in 79 A.D., [00:33.10]可是约在2000年以前,即公元79年, [00:36.08]there was a terrible earthquake. [00:37.75]这儿曾发生了一场可怕的地震. [00:39.42]No one expected it. [00:40.84]没人曾预料到这场地震. [00:42.27]One quiet morning in August,Vesuvius erupted. [00:45.05]8月里宁静的一天早晨,维苏威火山爆发了. [00:47.83]and hot ash and stones fell on Pompeii for nearly two whole days. [00:50.86]整整2天,灼热的灰烬和石块向庞贝城落下来. [00:53.89]Everywhere in the city people died suddenly. [00:56.36]全城的人突然遭到了灭顶之灾. [00:58.83]Everyone was busy at the time. [01:00.66]当时,人人都在干活. [01:02.48]The baker was baking bread; [01:04.31]面包师在烤面包; [01:06.14]shopkeepers were shutting their shops; [01:08.11]店主们正在关店门; [01:10.09]people were crossing the streets... [01:11.81]人们在穿行街道... [01:13.53]but the lava from the volcano covered everything. [01:16.00]可是火山喷射出的岩浆把一切都覆盖上了. [01:18.47]The city disappeared. [01:20.20]城市顿时消失. [01:21.92]Many hundreds of years later,in 1748, [01:24.85]数百年以后,在1748年, [01:27.77]a water engineer accidentally found some interesting objects. [01:30.59]一位水文工程师偶然发现了一些有趣的物件. [01:33.41]Over a hundred years passed before, [01:33.47]又过了一百多年, [01:33.52]little by little,archaeologists uncovered the city [01:36.29]考古学家才一点一点挖出了这座城市. [01:39.06]You can still see the marks of wheels in the streets, [01:41.44]您现在仍然能看到街上的车辙, [01:43.81]the loaves of bread at the baker's and the alphabet on the schoolroom wall! [01:47.34]面包房里的面包,教室墙上挂着的字母表!