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[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!