北师大版高中英语模块6--Unit 16 Stories Lesson1-3

[00:00.00]One person ,sitting alone.
[00:03.36]looks like he is praying .
[00:05.85]Another man,lying on his side,
[00:08.23]looks as if he is trying to get up.
[00:11.56]Today,
[00:12.46]more than 250 years since excavations¹ started,
[00:16.24]thousands of tourists and hundreds of
[00:18.37]archaeologists,
[00:19.63]visit Pompeii every year to learn more about
[00:22.03]the ancient world,In this way,the city,
[00:25.93]which the world had once forgotten,
[00:28.16]lives on nearly 2,000 years after the eruption²,
[00:31.74]that had destroyed it on August 24th,79AD.
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1 excavations   

n.挖掘( excavation的名词复数 )；开凿；开凿的洞穴（或山路等）；（发掘出来的）古迹

参考例句：

• The excavations are open to the public. 发掘现场对公众开放。
• This year's excavations may reveal ancient artifacts. 今年的挖掘可能会发现史前古器物。 来自辞典例句

2 eruption   

n.火山爆发；（战争等）爆发；（疾病等）发作

参考例句：

• 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。