温哥华英语口语 第 216 课：There is something down there,这下面有东西 Archaeologists look for objects. . . They look for pottery, statues, temples, and
coins. 考古学家们正在找寻古物...... 他们找寻瓷器、雕像、神庙和硬币等。
They hope these objects will help them understand the past. . . A small piece of
pottery under a rock might be a clue to the past.他们希望这些东西会帮助他们了解过去...... 岩石下面的一小片儿瓷器可能就是研究过去的线索。
Jake: Archaeologists also look for objects in the sea. 考古学家们也在海里寻找。
Jake: Sometimes they find objects under plants or rocks on the bottom of the sea. 有时他们在海底的植物和岩石下找到些东西。
But what keeps these people going? . . . All the time they wonder what might be under the next rock. . . When the archaeologists are under the water, they can't see things very clearly. 但是是什么使这些人继续寻找下去呢？...... 他们总是想知道在下一块岩石底下会有什么东西...... 当考古学家们在水中时， 他们看东西不太清楚。
Archaeologist: There is something down there, but you're not sure exactly what it is. 这下面有东西， 但是你不能肯定它到底是什么。
Jake: The people of King Herod's city built a harbor in an impossible place. It's a very rocky coast. . . 希律国王的臣民们在条件极为恶劣的地方修了个港口， 这是个多岩石的海岸......
They built walls of rock on the bottom of the sea. It took them ten years to build the harbor. 人们在海底用岩石筑起了墙。他们花了10 年的时间修了这座港口。
Jake: First, the people of King Herod's city built walls. . . Later, new people built walls on top of the old walls. 先是希律王国的人民筑起了城墙...... 然后， 后人在老城墙上修了新墙。
Jake: Most of the workers are college students. . . They start work at 4: 00 o'clock inthe morning when it's cool. Others are teachers, pilots, doctors, lawyers, and journalists. 大部分工作人员是大学生...... 他们在每天早晨四点钟凉快的时候开始工作。其他的还有教师、飞行员、医生、律师和新闻工作者。
Volunteer: I like digging myself. You never know what's under the next boulder. 我喜欢自己动手挖掘。你无从知道下一个大石头下会有什么。
Jake: They must love it. They never stop working. They never give up. They just keep digging. . . They look everywhere: 他们一定喜欢这个， 他们从不停止工作。他们决不放弃。他们只是在挖...... 他们找遍了所有的地方：
on top of walls, . . . next to walls, . . . under rocks, . . . on the bottom of the
sea. . . But in thirty years, only seven acres have been uncovered. Who knows what
might be under the thousands of acres that are left? 墙上，...... 墙边，...... 石头下，...... 海底...... 但是三十年来， 仅找遍了七英亩。谁知道在剩下的几千英亩下还会有些什么？
