高中英语人教版2000年高三上07

[03:40.71]devote hours to cleaning carefully a tiny area of stone.
[03:43.97]花时间去认真地清理石头上小小的地方.
[03:47.24]Boards are laid down to protect the precious painted stones
[03:50.02]为了保护这些绘有花纹的珍贵石块,上面铺了一层木板.
[03:52.80]while the repair work is going on.
[03:55.08]在修理工作的过程中.
[03:57.35]There are very few machines and little heavy equipment.
[04:00.13]那里有很少的机器和齐全的设备.
[04:02.91]Workers carry building materials in buckets at the end of long poles.
[04:06.24]工人用长长的木棒挑用桶装好的建筑材料.
[04:09.57]Piles of stones lie in a corner of the courtyard,waiting to be replaced.
[04:13.26]院子的角落里放着一堆堆的石头,准备作更换之用.
[04:16.94]The work of cleaning the stones is watched over by three Indian chemists.
[04:20.22]清理石头工作由三个印度化学师监守.
[04:23.50]It is a very slow task.
[04:25.48]这是一个很漫长的任务.
[04:27.47]First they clean the stones with brushes using buckets of a weak chemical.
[04:30.94]首先,用刷子蘸上桶里一种稀薄的化学药剂把石头清洗干净.
[04:34.42]Then gaps between the stones are filled in.
[04:36.70]然后把石头之间的缝隙填满.
[04:38.99]Finally another material is painted onto the stones
[04:41.86]最后,另一种化学原料油漆到石头上
[04:44.73]which will protect them from water for ever.
[04:47.41]它将永远保护石头,起到防水作用.
[04:50.09]Work starts every day at 7 a.m.
[04:52.52]每天的工作都在上午7点钟开始.
[04:54.95]and goes on until late afternoon six days a week,with a break at midday.
[04:59.18]一直到下午,一个星期六天,中午休息.
[05:03.41]For six or seven months in the year
[05:05.29]一年中有六个或者七个月
[05:07.17]no work can be done when the rainy season makes it impossible.
[05:10.20]不能工作,在雨季时就不可能工作.
[05:13.23]Besides,there are very few skilled stone workers left after the war years.
[05:16.96]除此之外,战争之后就剩下很少专业的石头工人了.
[05:20.68]Millions of people were killed in battle.
[05:22.76]在战斗中有数百万的人民被杀死.
[05:24.83]To make things worse,
[05:26.45]使情况更糟糕的是,
[05:28.07]many of the men have gone off to cities in search of higher pay,
[05:31.01]许多男人到城市去寻找更高的待遇.
[05:33.95]leaving women from nearby villages to carry on with the work.
[05:36.98]让附近乡村的妇女来实现这项工作.
[05:40.01]Evening is the best time to visit the temple,after the tour groups have left.
[05:43.69]在旅游团离开之后,晚上是参观这寺庙的最好时期.
[05:47.38]As the sun sinks lower,shadows the courtyard.
[05:50.62]当太阳下落时,余辉照射在院子上.
[05:53.85]After sunset,the sky turns pink.
[05:56.34]日落以后,天空变成粉红色.
[05:58.82]The grey stone towers take on a golden colour before turning pink.
[06:02.04]灰暗的石头城在变粉红色之前呈现出一片金碧辉煌.
[06:05.27]Nowhere else in the world can there be such a quiet,beautiful place.
[06:08.80]世界上没有别的地方能像这样美,这样幽静.
[06:12.32]Lesson 27  1 Reading comprehension
[06:18.81]第二十七课 1 阅读理解
[06:25.31]ANGKOR WAT (2)
[06:26.98]吴哥寺 (2)
[06:28.65]In 1177 the capital city of Angkor was seized
[06:32.19]1177年吴哥都城被查封
[06:35.73]after a fierce battle and fell into ruins.
[06:38.37]一场凶猛的战争过后变成了废墟.
[06:41.01]Soon a new capital was built at Angkor Thom,but this was deserted in 1434.
[06:45.77]不久一座新的首都在吴哥城建成,但是在1434年它被毁坏了.
[06:50.54]The ruins were soon covered by thick forests and were forgotten until 1861,
[06:54.51]这废墟很快就被一片厚厚的森林覆盖了,直到1816年才被发现,
[06:58.48]when the French,who then controlled Cambodia,discovered them.
[07:01.60]在法国人控制柬埔寨时发现的.
[07:04.72]They were astonished by what they found.
[07:06.85]他们为他们的发现感到惊讶.
[07:08.98]The ruins of the old city of Angkor covered an area of 200 square kilometres.
[07:13.01]旧吴哥城的废墟覆盖了200平方千米.
[07:17.03]As well as the temple of Angkor Wat,they included more than 50 major buildings
[07:20.96]吴哥寺包括了50多座主要地建筑.
[07:24.89]and others of less importance within this area.
[07:27.31]其他没那么重要的也在这个区域里面.
[07:29.72]They had been built over a period of six centuries up until 1431.
[07:33.15]它们已经建立有超过六个世纪了,一直到1431年.