2015年ESL之旅行交通购物 08 Visiting an Archaeological Site
时间：2018-12-03 作者：英语课 分类：2015年ESL之旅行交通购物
Visiting an Archaeological Site
Lillian: Look at this! I?m going to take this home as a souvenir.
Bruce: You can?t do that. That might be an artifact of some kind. It belongs to this archaeological site.
Lillian: It?s just a rock. No one will miss it.
Bruce: That?s not the point. Everything here should be preserved. That?s the point of doing a careful excavation 1. Everything should be recorded and nothing should be lost.
Lillian: Take it easy. It?s not like I?m defacing anything. And if they?re trying to preserve this site, why are they doing this dig? Wouldn?t it be better just to leave it frozen in time?
Bruce: The point is to learn more about the peoples of ancient civilizations who lived here in prehistory.
Lillian: In my opinion, it?s disrespectful to disturb burial mounds 2 and tombs. They were never meant to be desecrated 3 like this.
Bruce: Some people would agree with you, but that?s the price we have to pay to add to our knowledge about human history. I really think you should leave that rock where you found it. It could be a fossil.
Lillian: Do you really think so?
Bruce: You never know. You could hold in your hand the key to understanding this entire civilization.
Lillian: Wow, if I take it, I could preserve it for posterity 4.
Bruce: What happened to leaving things undisturbed?
Lillian: That?s before I realized I could go down in history for my own discovery!
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
- The bad weather has hung up the work of excavation.天气不好耽误了挖掘工作。
- The excavation exposed some ancient ruins.这次挖掘暴露出一些古遗迹。
- We had mounds of tasteless rice. 我们有成堆成堆的淡而无味的米饭。
- Ah! and there's the cemetery' - cemetery, he must have meant. 'You see the mounds? 啊，这就是同墓，”——我想他要说的一定是公墓，“看到那些土墩了吗？
- The invading army desecrated this holy place when they camped here. 侵略军在这块圣地上扎营就是对这块圣地的亵渎。
- She shouldn't have desecrated the picture of a religious leader. 她不该亵渎宗教领袖的画像。