[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！Lesson 83 Television Day: A great archaeological discovery. [00:04.41]第83课 电视日:伟大的考古发现 [00:08.83]In 1992 a British archaeologist, Howard Carter, [00:12.37]1922年英国考古学家霍华德.卡特 [00:15.91]was working in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. [00:18.16]在埃及的国王谷工作. [00:20.40]One day he asked his labourers to pull down a small hut which was in his way. [00:23.44]有一天,他叫工人把一间挡道的小屋推倒. [00:26.49]Carter noticed some steps beneath the hut and asked his men to clear them. [00:29.53]卡特看见小屋下有几个台阶,就叫工人清扫干净. [00:32.57]The steps led to a stone wall and Carter told his men to cut through it, [00:35.93]台阶通往一堵石头墙.卡特叫工人把墙打穿, [00:39.29]but to take care not to disturb anything that might be behind it. [00:42.19]但要小心别把墙后可能有的东西给弄乱了. [00:45.09]There was a passage behind the wall which led to yet another wall. [00:47.88]墙后有条通道,它通向另一堵墙. [00:50.68]They cut through this one very carefully [00:52.77]他们小心翼翼地打穿了这堵墙, [00:54.86]and suddenly came into a room full of household furniture and treasure. [00:58.00]眼前突然出现一间堆满家具和财宝的房间. [01:01.15]Carter spent several months making a list of every article in the room. [01:04.05]卡特花了几个月的时间把房间里每一件物品全登记入册. [01:06.95]When he had finished,he decided to cut through the opposite wall. [01:09.80]完成以后又决定打开对面的墙. [01:12.65]Then he found another room full of priceless objects. [01:15.00]这时他发现了另一个房间堆满无价之宝, [01:17.35]He noticed two black wooden statues which looked like guards [01:20.95]还发现了2个黑色木雕看上去像卫士 [01:24.56]and he made a hole in the wall between them. [01:26.71]他在这2个雕像中间的那扇墙上打了个洞. [01:28.87]Here he found three wooden chests which fitted inside each other [01:32.32]在那儿他发现3个套在一起的木箱, [01:35.76]and finally a fourth chest which was,in fact,a coffin [01:38.72]最后又发现了第4个木箱.那实际上是口棺材. [01:41.67]Carter had discovered the tomb ofTutankhamen, [01:44.12]卡特发现了图顿卡曼的陵墓 [01:46.58]an Egyptian King who lived more than 3000 years ago. [01:49.58]他是生活在3000多年前的埃及国王. [01:52.59]On the tomb there was a wreath of wild flowers. [01:55.33]陵墓上有只用野花编成的花圈.