Revision Lesson 5
復(fù)習(xí)課 5
Television Day:Pompeii
電視日:龐貝
This is the city of Pompeii.
這就是龐貝城,
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.
在街上您能見到有些游客
You can see the volcano,Vesuvius,in the background.
您能看到在它后面的維蘇威火山.
It all looks very peaceful.
它看上去十分平靜.
Yet nearly 2000 years ago,in 79 A.D.,
可是約在2000年以前,即公元79年,
there was a terrible earthquake.
這兒曾發(fā)生了一場可怕的地震.
No one expected it.
沒人曾預(yù)料到這場地震.
One quiet morning in August,Vesuvius erupted.
8月里寧靜的一天早晨,維蘇威火山爆發(fā)了.
and hot ash and stones fell on Pompeii for nearly two whole days.
整整2天,灼熱的灰燼和石塊向龐貝城落下來.
Everywhere in the city people died suddenly.
全城的人突然遭到了滅頂之災(zāi).
Everyone was busy at the time.
當時,人人都在干活.
The baker was baking bread;
面包師在烤面包;
shopkeepers were shutting their shops;
店主們正在關(guān)店門;
people were crossing the streets...
人們在穿行街道...
but the lava from the volcano covered everything.
可是火山噴射出的巖漿把一切都覆蓋上了.
The city disappeared.
城市頓時消失.
Many hundreds of years later,in 1748,
數(shù)百年以后,在1748年,
a water engineer accidentally found some interesting objects.
一位水文工程師偶然發(fā)現(xiàn)了一些有趣的物件.
Over a hundred years passed before,
又過了一百多年,
little by little,archaeologists uncovered the city
考古學(xué)家才一點一點挖出了這座城市.
You can still see the marks of wheels in the streets,
您現(xiàn)在仍然能看到街上的車轍,
the loaves of bread at the baker's and the alphabet on the schoolroom wall!
面包房里的面包,教室墻上掛著的字母表!