英语听力：自然百科 真实的庞贝—9
时间：2018-12-26 作者：英语课 分类：自然百科2015年
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The melting rock is forcing its way out. In fact, its effects are felt years before. The city lives through something which today would be seen as a terrible warning.
This is evidence of a major disaster, an earthquake that hit the city in 62 A. D., just 17 years before the final eruption 1. What we find is that, in this wall for example, that we have the brick in the corner which surrounds this nice diamond shaped wall. In fact, it's broken off at this point, and is instead replaced by a much more poorly built wall. And so the walls have been rebuilt with that rubble 2 into this much more basic design.
Even though the people on Pompeii didn't know, it is clear to volcanologist today that this earthquake of 62 B.C.(A.D.?) was a precursor 3 of the eruption. It indicates that the magma is about to reach the surface. And a new eruption is about to occur.
Pompeiians definitely didn't understand the dangerous position they were in. They even built the city on a offshoot of the previous lava 4 flat.
1 eruption
n.火山爆发；（战争等）爆发；（疾病等）发作
- The temple was destroyed in the violent eruption of 1470 BC.庙宇在公元前1470年猛烈的火山爆发中摧毁了。
- The eruption of a volcano is spontaneous.火山的爆发是自发的。
2 rubble
n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。