新概念英语青少版第四册第5课：Pompeii

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。