初三英语听力 05

（单词翻译）

[00:02.49]第六单元  这是个神秘的事情.
[00:04.99]Lesson 21  1 Read and act
[00:09.12]第21课  1.阅读并表演
[00:13.24]Which foreign country would you like to see, Alex?
[00:16.18]亚历克斯,你最想去哪个异国乡村?
[00:19.12]Urn,that's difficult to say.
[00:21.16]这个很难说.
[00:23.20]I think I'd like to go to Brazil.
[00:25.08]我想去巴西.
[00:26.96]Why would you choose Brazil?
[00:28.79]你为什么想去巴西?
[00:30.62]Because I'd like to look for the Amazon Forest Monster!
[00:33.19]因为我想去寻找亚马逊森林怪物.
[00:35.76]And what about you? Which foreign country would you like to see?
[00:38.73]你呢?哪里的外国乡村你最想去?
[00:41.69]I think I would like to go to Scotland¹.
[00:44.03]我想去苏格兰.
[00:46.37]Why Scotland?
[00:47.84]为什么想去苏格兰.
[00:49.32]Because I'd like to take a picture of the Loch Ness Monster!
[00:52.40]因为我想去拍一张尼斯湖怪兽的照片.
[00:55.48]3 Read and learn
[00:57.67]3.阅读并学习
[00:59.85]Joyce, do you know that there's an island named after a holiday?
[01:03.18]乔伊斯,你知道哪座岛的名字与一个节日名相同吗?
[01:06.51]I've never heard of that.
[01:08.28]我从没有听说过.
[01:10.06]I don't think there is such an island.
[01:12.19]我不认为那儿有这样的一个岛.
[01:14.32]Yes, there is. Hey,Roberto, come here.
[01:17.65]是的,那儿有.嗨,罗伯特,来这里.
[01:20.98]Yes, Han Mei? What's up?
[01:23.20]是的,韩梅,它们是怎么竖起来的?
[01:25.42]Is there an island named after a holiday?
[01:27.54]这就是名字与节日名相同的岛?
[01:29.65]Yeah, it's called Easter Island.
[01:31.62]是的,它叫复活节岛.
[01:33.60]It's part of my country, Chile.
[01:35.67]是我的国家智利的一部分
[01:37.75]Well, we can learn something new every day.
[01:40.39]太好了,我们今天学到了一些新的东西.
[01:43.03]Lesson 22
[01:47.30]第22课
[01:51.57]A GREAT MYSTERY
[01:53.40]一件非常神秘的事情
[01:55.23]Easter Island is a great mystery.
[01:57.80]复活节岛非常神秘.
[02:00.37]It is named Easter Island because it was found on Easter Day.
[02:03.65]它被称作复活节岛,因为它是在复活节被发现的.
[02:06.93]It is in the Pacific Ocean, 2,200 miles west of Chile.
[02:10.86]它座落广阔的太平洋里,在智利西部2,200 米.
[02:14.79]On many parts of the island,there are huge robot-like stone statues called Moai.
[02:19.27]复活节岛上有许多巨大的半身人面石像,人们称他们为"毛埃".
[02:23.75]No one knows for sure how the Moai came to be.
[02:26.73]没有人确切知道毛埃的来历.
[02:29.71]Some think that people from Peru² made the Moai thousands of years ago.
[02:33.73]一些人认为毛埃是秘鲁人在数千前制造的.
[02:37.75]Others think that aliens³ from space made the Moai
[02:41.03]有些人认为是毛埃是外星人制造的.
[02:44.31]and left them as some kind of message.
[02:46.84]也有很多各种各样的说法
[02:49.38]The island also has many kinds of rock carvings⁴ written in a kind of language
[02:53.51]这岛屿也有许多写着各种语言的雕像,
[02:57.63]that exists only in this part of the world.
[03:00.17]它们是世界上存在的仅有的一部分.
[03:02.70]And this written language appeared many years ago,
[03:05.68]这种书写语言出现于许多年前,
[03:08.66]perhaps even before written Chinese took shape!
[03:11.48]甚至可能在现在书写汉字形成之前.
[03:14.30]It is thought that at one time,
[03:16.34]一小段时间,曾经被关注过,
[03:18.37]the population of Easter Island was over 10, 000.
[03:21.60]在复活节岛上的有一万人之多.
[03:24.83]This destroyed the ecosystem⁵ of the island.
[03:27.50]这样破坏了岛上的生态系统.
[03:30.18]Many trees were cut down to plant crops
[03:33.00]许多树木被坎伐,用来种庄稼.
[03:35.82]and to make it easier to move the Moai around the island.
[03:39.05]雕了许多毛埃石像在岛的四周,
[03:42.28]The people never knew that cutting down the trees would cause an ecological⁶ problem.
[03:46.31]人们从不知道乱砍伐会引起生态系统的问题.
[03:50.35]Pretty soon they started fighting with each other and many of them died.
[03:54.03]不欠他们开始彼此争斗,死了很多人.
[03:57.71]Those who were left knocked the Moai down.
[04:00.39]活下来的人们把毛埃推倒了.
[04:03.07]Then came people from other countries to the island
[04:05.59]从别的乡村进来的人们,
[04:08.11]bringing illnesses that the islanders⁷ had never had before

[04:11.23]他们带来了疾病,岛上的居民再也不像以前那样了.
[04:14.35]Many more people died and by the 1800s
[04:17.14]很多人死了,到了1800年
[04:19.92]there were only a little more than 100 islanders alive.
[04:22.95]岛上的居民仅仅超过100人.
[04:25.98]After Easter Island became part of Chile in 1888,the population increased.
[04:30.55]1888年复活岛成立了智的一部分,人口不断增加,
[04:35.12]Now there are about 2, 000 people living on the island.
[04:38.00]现在大约有2000人住在岛上.
[04:40.87]People have started raising the Moai again,
[04:43.15]人们重新开始把毛埃的雕像竖立起来,
[04:45.44]even though no one knows why they are there.
[04:47.92]仅管他们不知道它们为什么在这里.
[04:50.40]Many people from all over the world come to see the Moai,
[04:52.92]世界各地的人们都去看毛埃,
[04:55.44]because they are such a mystery. No matter what the reason,
[04:59.36]因为他们太神秘了,无论是出于何种理由,
[05:03.28]whether they were set up by people from Peru or by aliens from space,
[05:07.41]无论它们是由秘鲁人还是由外星人树立起来的,
[05:11.54]they are still looking out over the ocean mysteriously!
[05:14.62]它们仍然在神秘地遥望着大海!
[05:17.70]Lesson 23 1 Read and act
[05:23.53]第23课  1.阅读并表演
[05:29.35]What are you doing with that, that...What is that?
[05:32.13]你做什么事情带那个,那个...那个是什么?
[05:34.92]It's a kind of radio for sending messages out into space.
[05:37.95]它中间间隔开,有几分像无线接收装置
[05:40.98]Why do you want to do that?
[05:42.86]你为什么去做那个?
[05:44.74]What if aliens put up the Moai to send us a message?
[05:47.57]万一外星人树立毛埃是要给我们发消息呢?
[05:50.41]I'd like to let them know that we want to talk to them too.
[05:53.03]我想让他们知道我们也想和他交谈.
[05:55.66]Do you really think that there are aliens out there?
[05:58.09]你真的想知道那边有外星人吗?
[06:00.52]Well, I'm not sure.But what if there are?
[06:03.55]当然,但是我不确信要是有呢?
[06:06.58]Then they may get my message.
[06:08.40]那么他们也许能给我信息.
[06:10.23]Well, yeah. By the way,what is your message?
[06:12.96]是的,顺便问一下,你发什么信息呢?
[06:15.69]"Earth is a cool place! If you get this message,
[06:18.83]地球是个凉爽的地方如果获得那个消息,
[06:21.96]please write me back.
[06:23.54]"请给我回音."
[06:25.12]Lesson 24  3 Solve the mystery
[06:33.09]第24课  3.解决神秘的事情
[06:41.06]Rachel came into the classroom Monday morning and there was a note in her desk.
[06:44.62]星期一的早上,雷切尔走进教室,有张小纸条在她的课桌上.
[06:48.19]It said,if you want to have fun,meet me in room 306 after school.
[06:53.87]写着:如果你想知道一些有趣的事情,下课后到306房间来找我.
[06:59.55]Rachel looked around.She was the first one in the classroom.
[07:03.38]雷切尔看了看四周.她是第一个到教室.
[07:07.21]No one else was there.After the first class,she showed the note to Jim and said,
[07:11.99]没有其他的人在这儿.上完第一节课,她把纸条递给吉姆并对他说,
[07:16.77]"I'd like to know who sent me this note.Did you give it to me?
[07:21.14]"我想知道谁把这张纸条给我.是你给我的吗?"
[07:25.52]"Jim read the note and told Rachel that he hadn't written the note.
[07:28.99]吉姆看后告诉雷切尔他没有写过这张纸条.
[07:32.47]The next class began.Rachel had a difficult time listening to the teacher
[07:36.54]第二节课开始了.雷切尔没有心思听老师讲课.
[07:40.62]because she kept wondering about the note.
[07:42.94]因为她对这张纸条感到很疑惑.
[07:45.27]She always cleans her desk before she leaves for home.
[07:48.15]她总是在回家之前清理桌子.
[07:51.04]Yesterday she didn't see the note in her desk.
[07:53.82]昨天她并没有看见有纸条在她课桌上.
[07:56.60]This morning,she wasthe first one in the class.
[07:59.58]今天早上,她第一个到教室.
[08:02.56]There was no one around,so how did the note get in her desk?
[08:05.98]四周没有人,这纸条怎么会在她的课桌上呢?
[08:09.40]After class she asked Li Lei about the note.
[08:12.19]下课后她问李雷关于纸条的事情.
[08:14.97]He said that he hadn't written the note,either.
[08:17.35]他说他也没有写过这张纸条.
[08:19.72]Rachel wasn't sure if she should go after class to meet this person.
[08:23.11]雷切尔没有确定,她要不要在下课后去见那个人

[08:26.49]Maybe it wasn't safe.At lunch she showed all her friends the note.
[08:31.16]也许不够安全.吃午餐的时候她把这张纸条给了她所有的朋友看.
[08:35.84]They all said they hadn't written the note.
[08:38.32]他们都说没有写过这纸条.
[08:40.80]They all tried to think of who wrote the note
[08:43.23]他们试度在想是谁写的纸条.
[08:45.66]and why the person wanted to meet Rachel.
[08:48.09]为什么那个人想见雷切尔.
[08:50.52]The day went on as usual and finally the last class of the day was finished.
[08:54.40]日子照样过去,一天,下课后.
[08:58.28]Rachel took the note,and went with her friends to room 306.They found ...
[09:03.80]雷切尔拿着这张纸条和她的朋友一起去306室.他们发现 ...
[09:09.33]Words And Expressions 6
[09:18.37]mystery              Amazon               Loch                 Lch Ness
[09:23.59]n.神秘的事物;秘密    n.亚马逊河           n.(苏格兰)湖         尼斯湖
[09:28.82]Egypt                pyramid              Easter               Chile
[09:33.54]n.埃及               n.金字塔             n.复活节             n.智利
[09:38.27]continent            stone                statue               Peru
[09:43.29]n.大陆               n.石头               n.雕像;塑像          n.秘鲁
[09:48.30]alien                carving              take shape           exist
[09:53.59]n.外国人(的)         n.雕刻物(品)         定形;成形            v.存在
[09:58.88]destroy              cause                knock down           illness
[10:04.16]v.破坏;毁坏          n.& v.原因;引起      撞击;击倒            n.疾病
[10:09.44]raise                reason               mysteriously         plant
[10:14.41]v.举起;抬起          n.理由;原因;道理     adv.神秘的           n.行星
[10:19.39]note                 situation            senior⁸
[10:23.11]n.便条;笔记          n.状况;局面;环境     adj.高级的;年长的