美国小学英语教材6:第211课 工人是征服者（在线收听）

WORKERS ARE CONQUERORS

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 victorious 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 forth 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, copper, 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 countless 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。