英语听力：自然百科 真实的庞贝—16

So here we find ourselves in one of the other restaurants that have been excavated¹ in this town block. As customers would come up through this long passage way, they'd reach the end of the property, where they would find, out on the left hand side here, two dining rooms. In the second one here, if we enter in, what you could expect to have found in 79 A.D. was a few couches around the side and the back walls. And also very simple, very basic wall decoration. Nothing like the fancy kinds of decoration we find in a much better point of restaurants. What we've also found in this area are many of these gaming pieces with these, you know, heads and tails fig². to it. These are fantastic reminders³ that not only eating and drinking was(were) important in this establishment,but also gambling⁴ as well. 

 

Archaeologists have pieced together what was on the menu. They've taken the garbage and the waste that was trapped 2000 years ago in the drains of this building and sifted⁵ through it. They add water and force air bubbles through. The fragments which float to the surface are then removed for analysis. 

 

Here we've got some little seeds that we've picked out through the flotation. Got an apple seed in here. So we know that they're eating a wide variety of apples, you know, fruit, different kinds of fruit, like pears and figs⁶, white grape seeds, there is a lot of grape in their diet. So those are very common. Fish, a lot of fish bones, fish-scale.

1 excavated   

v.挖掘( excavate的过去式和过去分词 )；开凿；挖出；发掘

参考例句：

• The site has been excavated by archaeologists. 这个遗址已被考古学家发掘出来。
• The archaeologists excavated an ancient fortress. 考古学家们发掘出一个古堡。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 fig   

n.无花果(树)

参考例句：

• The doctor finished the fig he had been eating and selected another.这位医生吃完了嘴里的无花果，又挑了一个。
• You can't find a person who doesn't know fig in the United States.你找不到任何一个在美国的人不知道无花果的。

3 reminders   

n.令人回忆起…的东西( reminder的名词复数 )；提醒…的东西；（告知该做某事的）通知单；提示信

参考例句：

• The film evokes chilling reminders of the war. 这部电影使人们回忆起战争的可怕场景。
• The strike has delayed the mailing of tax reminders. 罢工耽搁了催税单的投寄。

4 gambling   

n.赌博；投机

参考例句：

• They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
• The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。

5 sifted   

v.筛( sift的过去式和过去分词 )；筛滤；细查；详审

参考例句：

• She sifted through her papers to find the lost letter. 她仔细在文件中寻找那封丢失的信。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She sifted thistles through her thistle-sifter. 她用蓟筛筛蓟。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 figs   

figures 数字，图形，外形

参考例句：

• The effect of ring dyeing is shown in Figs 10 and 11. 环形染色的影响如图10和图11所示。
• The results in Figs. 4 and 5 show the excellent agreement between simulation and experiment. 图4和图5的结果都表明模拟和实验是相当吻合的。