洪恩环境英语第八册 06 Well,The show must go on.

　　Where's Maria?
玛丽在哪儿？
I don't know.She might be caught in a snowstorm somewhere.
我不知道，她可能在哪儿遇上暴风雪了。
Try her house.She might be home.
看看她在不在家，她可能正在家里。
I called.She's not there.
我打过电话，好不在。
Where's Steven?Have you heard from him?
史蒂文在哪儿？你有他的消息吗？
No,not yet.
不，还没有。
Well,the show must go on.We'll be able to do today's show without them.
哦，节目得继续。没有他们我们能做今天的节目。
No probolem.
没问题。
Except we can't find the scripts.Do you know where they are?
除非我们找不到脚本。你知道他们放在哪儿？
They must be on the bookshelf.I put them there yesterday.
一定在书架上，我昨天放那儿了。
Ah,here they are.Now where are the schedules?
噢，在这儿。现在进度表呢？
They're on the shelf,Jake.
在书架了，杰克。
Here's a picture of Chris and me.Hey,I look great!
这是我和克丽丝的照片。嘿，我看起来很帅呀。
The schedules are next to the picture,under the videotapes.
日程表在照片的旁边，录像带下面，
Quit admiring yoursef,Jake.
别自我欣赏了，杰克。
This is a story about an ancient city
which was built 3,000 years ago by King Herod..
本次报道的是一座3000多年前由希律国王建造的古城...
Today,the city is buried under the water
and under the sand of this Mediterranean¹ coast.
如今，这座古城被埋在地中海海滨的海水和泥沙中。
Archaeologists look for the secrets that are buried here..
考古学家们正在寻找埋在这里的秘密...
They look for clues to Herod's ancient city.
他们在找有关希律古城的经索。
Archaeologists look for objects...
考古学家们正在找寻古物..
They look for pottery²,statures,temples,and coins.
他们找寻瓷器、雕像、神庙和硬币等。
They hope these objects will help them understand the past...
他们希望这些东西会帮助他们了解过去...
A small piece of pottery under a rock might be a clue to the past.
岩石下面的一小片儿瓷器可能就是研究过去的线索。
Archaeologists also look for objects in the sea.
考古学家们也在海里寻找。
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...
It must be hard work.But what keeps these people going?
这一定是项艰苦的工作。但是是什么使这些人继续寻找下去呢？...
..All the time they wonder what might be under the next rock...
他们总是想知道在下块岩石底下会有什么东西...
When archaeologists are under the water,
当考古学家们在水中时，
they can't see things very clearly.
他们看不太清楚
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。
The people of King Herod's city built a harbor in an impossible place.
希律国王的臣民们在条件极为恶劣的地方修了个港口，
It's a very rocky coast...
这是个多岩石的海崖...
They built walls of rock on the bottom of the sea.
人们在海底用岩石筑起了墙。
It took them ten years to build the harbor.
他们花了10 年的时间修了这座港口。
First,the people of King Herod's city built walls..
先是希律王国的人民筑起了城墙..
Later,new people built walls on top of the old walls.
然后，后人在老城墙上修了新墙。
Most of the worders are college students..
大部分工作人员是大学生...
They start work at 4:00 o'clock in the morning when it's cool.
他们在每天早晨四点钟凉快的时候开始工作。
Others are teachers,pilots,doctors,lawyers,and journalists.
其他的还有教师、飞行员、医生、律师和新闻工作者。
I like digging myself.You never know what's under the next boulder³.
我喜欢自已动手挖掘。你无从知道下一个大石头下会有什么。
They must love it.They never stop working.
他们一定喜欢这个，他们从不停止工作。
They never give up.They jsut keep digging..
他们决不放弃。他们只是在挖...
They look everywhere:On top of walls...next to walls,...
他们找遍了所有的地方：墙上，..墙边..
under rocks,..On the bottom of the sea..
石头下，..海底..
But in thirty years,only seven acres have been uncovered.
但是三十年来，仅找遍了七英亩。
Who knows what might be under the thousands of acres that are left?
仅找遍了七英亩。谁知道剩下的几千英亩下还会有些什么？

1 Mediterranean   

adj.地中海的；地中海沿岸的

参考例句：

• The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
• Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。

2 pottery   

n.陶器，陶器场

参考例句：

• My sister likes to learn art pottery in her spare time.我妹妹喜欢在空余时间学习陶艺。
• The pottery was left to bake in the hot sun.陶器放在外面让炎热的太阳烘晒焙干。

3 boulder   

n.巨砾；卵石，圆石

参考例句：

• We all heaved together and removed the boulder.大家一齐用劲，把大石头搬开了。
• He stepped clear of the boulder.他从大石头后面走了出来。