高中英语人教版2000年高三下10

[07:18.91]Maybe thousands."
[07:20.53]“我想我们是数百年来第一个来这里的人。又也许是几千年。”
[07:22.15]Outside the rain had turned into a storm
[07:27.14]and lightning flashed over the hills.
[07:29.16]洞外，小雨已变成了狂风暴雨，闪电划过由岗。
[07:31.19]It was beginning to get dark.
[07:32.87]天开始变黑了。
[07:34.56]"I think we'd best stay the night here," I said.
[07:36.74]“我想我们今晚最好呆在这里。”我说。
[07:38.92]"We're warm,we're dry and we're safe.
[07:41.00]“我们又暖和又干爽又安全。
[07:43.07]We've still got a little food and water
[07:45.10]我们还有一点点粮食和水。
[07:47.12]and maybe by tomorrow morning the weather will have cleared up.
[07:49.69]"也许到明天早晨，天就会晴了。
[07:52.27]I shall never forget that extraordinary evening.
[07:54.49]我将永远不会忘记那个非比寻常的夜晚。
[07:56.71]We collected more wood and laid it in a big pile inside the cave.
[07:59.90]我们收集了更多的木柴并把它在洞里面堆成一大堆。
[08:03.08]The smoke from the fire rose and found its way outside
[08:05.76]缕缕青烟从火中升起，飘出洞外，
[08:08.44]and the light danced over the roof of the cave.
[08:10.66]火光在洞顶上闪动。
[08:12.88]On one hand,I was anxious to leave.
[08:15.01]一方面，我为我们能否离开而担心。
[08:17.14]I was so excited that I wanted to tell the whole world what we had found.
[08:20.11]我想告诉全世界人我们我们的发现。我感到很兴奋。
[08:23.09]I was proud that we had come across something that was
[08:25.31]我为我们遇到这些事物而感到骄傲。
[08:27.53]completely unkown and valuable and,I guessed,extremely old.
[08:30.81]这个完全不被世人所知的又很有价值的发现。我想那应该是非常古老的了。
[08:34.09]On the other hand,
[08:35.62]另一方面，
[08:37.15]I felt sad that I wasn't able to tell my grandparents that we were safe.
[08:40.08]我为不能告诉我们的祖父母我们是安全的而担忧。
[08:43.02]We were in a better position than they were.
[08:44.94]我们在一个比他们更好的地方。
[08:46.86]I realized that they would by very worried,
[08:48.90]我意识到他们肯定很担心，
[08:50.94]but that would trust our good sense,wherever we were.
[08:53.32]但是无论我们在什么地方，他们都会相信我们的处事才智的。
[08:55.69]Another part of me wanted this moment to continue for ever.
[08:58.51]我还有另一个想法，就是希望这个时刻能永远持续下去。
[09:01.34]This evening the cave was ours.It belonged to no one else.
[09:04.76]这个晚上这个洞是我们的。它不属于其他人。
[09:08.18]I knew that experts from the local museum would soon visit the cave.
[09:10.96]我知道当地博物馆的专家们很快就会来参观这个洞。
[09:13.74]Professors from the university in Paris would be coming down by train.
[09:16.62]法国的大学教授会坐火车过来的。
[09:19.49]There would be pictures in magazines and newspapers,
[09:21.87]杂志上和报纸上将会有这里的图片，
[09:24.24]showing crowds of people with their cameras and noisy,excited talk.
[09:27.22]一大群人拿着他们的相机围在一起，吵吵嚷嚷的又夹着兴奋的谈话。
[09:30.20]We were so excited,my brother and I,
[09:32.23]我和我的弟弟是如此兴奋，
[09:34.25]that we did not get to sleep until very late.
[09:36.52]直到很晚我们才睡觉。
[09:38.80]We talked and wondered about the people who had lived here before.
[09:41.52]我们在谈话，并且想知道以前在这里生活的人。
[09:44.25]How many people lived here? When did they leave this area?
[09:47.08]有多少人住这里？他们什么时候离开这块土地？
[09:49.90]What clothes did they wear? What were their names?
[09:52.72]他们穿什么样的衣服？他们的名字是什么？
[09:55.54]What languages did they speak?
[09:57.37]他们说什么样的语言？
[09:59.20]Neither of us realized that night
[10:01.22]那天夜里，我们谁也没有意识到，
[10:03.25]that these carvings and paintings dated back 15,000 years,
[10:07.02]那些雕刻与绘画已存在15000年了，
[10:10.80]nor that the headline in the newspaper would be
[10:13.13]也没有想到报纸的大标题会是
[10:15.47]"The find of the century---
[10:17.35]“本世纪的发现....
[10:19.23]Children aged 13 and 11 discover cave paintings.
[10:22.71]"一个13岁和一个11岁的小孩子发现了这个洞的绘画."