美国小学英语教材6:第211课 工人是征服者

WORKERS ARE CONQUERORS¹

工人是征服者

Conquerors of the world! When you hear these words, you think of famous men like Napoleon and Caesar,

世界的征服者，当你听到这些话语时，你会想到像拿破仑，凯撒这样的著名人物，

men who have led victorious² armies to battle and have made nations bow to their rule.

他们带领着胜利之师，让各国臣服于他们的统治。

But these men are not the true conquerors. Workers are the conquerors of the world; they are the ones who have harnessed the earth

但这些人不是真正的征服者，工人才是世界的主宰，他们是那些利用大地的人，

and made it give forth³ its riches so that men and women and boys and girls may live happier lives.

让大地产生财富，让这里的男男女女，男孩女孩生活幸福。

From the depths of the earth workers send up iron, copper⁴, lead, and other metals. In roaring furnaces

从地下深处的工人，他们输送铁、铜、铝等金属材料，在熊熊燃烧的熔炉

and mills and in busy factories other workers turn these metals into ships, engines, bicycles, building materials,

制造厂，在繁忙的工厂，其他工人将钢铁转化为轮船、引擎、自行车和建筑材料，

and the countless⁵ other things we need. In wonderful laboratories careful, patient workers experiment to find new ways of doing things

还有数不清的我们需要的东西，在华美的实验室，精细，耐心的工人做实验，寻找新的制造方法，

and different uses for the materials they have found on this earth. These, then, are the true conquerors of the world:

寻找在大地上发现的材料使用方法，这些才是世界的真正征服者：

the men and women who fight the battle against disease and suffering, who twist and turn and cut and hammer

那些战胜疾病和苦难的男男女女，那些扭转、转变、剪切、猛击

metal and wood into shapes that we can use, who harness the forces of water, electricity, and heat so that they will work for us,

金属和木头将他们变成我们可以利用的形状的人，那些利用水、电以及热量的人，让它们为我们工作，

who till the soil and plant it with crops so that we may have food. The earth has great gifts for man,

那些用耕地、0翻土以及种植庄稼的人，这样我们有了食物，大地给了人们大量礼物，

greater gifts than any Aladdin's lamp could bring him. But man must win them by study and work.

这些礼物比阿拉丁神灯能够给予他的要多得多，但人类需要学习和劳作才能获得。

In this part of your book you will read stories of how some of the work of the world is done.

在本书的这部分，你将读到一些关于劳动的故事。

You will also meet some of the workers and learn how they are conquering the world.

你还会遇到一些劳动者，学习他们是如何征服大地的。

1 conquerors   

征服者，占领者( conqueror的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Danes had selfconfidence of conquerors, and their security precautions were casual. 这些丹麦人具有征服者的自信，而且他们的安全防卫也是漫不经心的。
• The conquerors believed in crushing the defeated people into submission, knowing that they could not win their loyalty by the victory. 征服者们知道他们的胜利并不能赢得失败者的忠心，于是就认为只有通过武力才能将他们压服。

2 victorious   

adj.胜利的，得胜的

参考例句：

• We are certain to be victorious.我们定会胜利。
• The victorious army returned in triumph.获胜的部队凯旋而归。

3 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

4 copper   

n.铜；铜币；铜器；adj.铜(制)的；(紫)铜色的

参考例句：

• The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
• Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。

5 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。