Salt Rocks!
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents Take It with a Grain of Salt.
目录 以一粒盐.
4 Don’t Rub Salt in the Wound.
4 在伤病中不要用鲁布盐.
7 Salt of the Earth.
七地盐.
10 Back to the Salt Mines.
10回盐矿.
11 Are You Worth Your Salt?
11 你值得你的盐吗?
14 Glossary.
14 词汇表。
16 Take It with a Grain of Salt If your friends told you to eat rocks, would you?
16 摄取 用一粒盐 如果你的朋友叫你吃石头,你会吗?
Perhaps you would take what they say with a grain of salt.
也许你会拿他们说的话 用一粒盐。
This means that you should not trust that everything you hear is true.
这意味着你不应该相信 你听到的一切是真实的。
When you eat salt, you actually are eating a rock.
当你吃盐的时候,你实际上是在吃石头。
Well, it’s a mineral, to be more exact.
更确切地说,这是一个矿物。
It comes in little crystals.
它从小结晶而来.
Hey, my name is Crystal, too!
嘿,我叫克莉丝多!
It may surprise you to learn just how important this little white mineral can be.
你可能惊讶地知道 这个小白矿有多重要
Well, you’re about to read a whole book on it.
你会读一本书。
Hi, I’m Crystal.
嗨,我是克莉丝汀
First of all, there is salt in your body right now.
首先,现在你体内有盐
In fact, without salt you would die!
事实上,没有盐你就会死!
People and animals need salt to live.
人与畜生需要盐来活活.
Your body uses salt to make your muscles move and to help your blood flow.
身体用盐来使肌肉运动并助血流.
Salt also helps you make good use of the food you eat and controls the water inside you.
盐也帮助你很好地使用你吃的食物,控制你体内的水.
It even keeps your heart beating.
它甚至让你的心跳。
If you have too little salt in you, you may feel tired or dizzy.
如果你的盐太少,你可能会感到疲惫或头晕.
But putting too much salt inside you can make you sick.
但把太多的盐放进去 会让你生病的
Over many years, too much salt can make your heart and other parts of your body weak.
多年来,太多的盐会使你的心和身体的其他部分变得虚弱.
Many foods already have a lot of salt in them.
许多食品已经含有大量的盐.
But sometimes people add more salt for seasoning.
但有时人们会加入更多的盐来作调味.
Salt is not known as a spice because it does not come from a plant.
盐因不是出自一株植物而被称为香料.
But salt and spices both add flavor to food.
但盐和香料都给食物添加了口味.
Sodium is another word for salt.
钠是盐的另一个词.
One little spoonful of salt has as much sodium as your body needs for a whole day.
一个小勺子的盐有 与你的身体需要的一样多的钠 一整天。
The label on a food or drink package tells you how much sodium it has.
食物或饮料包装上的标签告诉你它有多少钠.
If there is a lot of salt, there will be a lot of sodium.
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A lot of people try to eat foods low in sodium.
很多人试图用钠来低调地吃食物.
They know that too much of it can be harmful.
他们知道其中太多是有害的。
You may have seen foods marked low in sodium.
你可能见过低分量的钠食品
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
The average American eats 15 lbs (6.
美国人平均吃15磅(6.
8 kg) of salt per year —the weight of a heavy bowling ball.
每年有8公斤)的盐——重保龄球的重量.
Don’t Rub Salt in the Wound Salt can do much more than make food taste better.
让食物更美味。
A common use is to keep food from spoiling.
一个常见的用途是防止食物被破坏.
Long ago, there were no refrigerators or cans to keep food fresh.
很久以前,没有冰箱或罐子来保持食物新鲜.
So people put salt on meat and soaked vegetables in salt water.
于是人们将盐放入了肉上,将浸入了盐水中的蔬菜.
It helped them preserve the food so they could eat it later.
它帮助他们保存食物 以便他们以后可以吃它。
But be aware!
注意一点!
Salt is not a magic tool.
盐不是魔法工具
Once a food spoils, salt will not make it safe to eat again.
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Would you put salt in your milk?
你会在牛奶里放盐吗?
Probably not.
也许不是。
People once tried to keep milk from going bad by adding salt to it.
人们曾经试图通过加盐来防止牛奶变坏.
Yuck!
讨厌!
This did not work very well.
效果不妙。
Fortunately, we have discovered many other uses for salt.
幸运的是,我们发现了许多其他用于盐的用途。
Salt Sayings Suppose you fell off your bike and scraped your knee.
盐说 假设你从自行车上掉下来并刮伤了膝盖
It would feel even worse if you put salt on the wound.
如果你把盐放在伤口上 会更糟糕
Ouch!
哎哟!
So what does the saying “don’t rub salt in the wound” mean?
“不要在伤口上抹盐”是什么意思?
If someone feels bad already, do not do something to make it worse.
如果有人已经感觉不好了, 不要做一些事情让它更糟。
Which of these are other ways people have used salt?
其中哪些是人们用盐的其他方法?
• make leather Answer: all of them!
· 制作皮革回答:全部!
Salt of the Earth Salt is a natural material called sodium chloride.
地盐是一种天然材料,叫氯化钠.
It is found all over the world and comes in little, clear crystals called grains.
它遍布世界各地,以很少的、清晰的晶体而来,称为谷物。
In nature, large groups of salt grains stick together and form rocks.
在自然界,一大批盐粒会相接而成岩石.
Rocks of salt are often white, like the salt you eat.
盐石常为白色,如所食之盐.
But I bet you didn’t know that salt rocks can also be brown, orange, or even pink!
我敢打赌你不知道盐石也可能是棕色、橙色甚至粉红色;
Mummies and Fast Cars!
木乃伊和快车!
About 3,000 years ago in Egypt, people hoped to live on after death.
大约3000年前在埃及,人们希望死后能活.
So when someone died, workers dried out the body by rubbing it with salt.
所以当有人死了,工人用盐来擦干尸体。
Then they wrapped up the body and buried it.
然后他们把尸体包起来埋了
This preserved the body.
这保存了尸体。
People believed this would let their loved one rest in peace forever.
人们相信这会让他们所爱的人永远安息。
We call these wrapped-up bodies mummies.
我们称之为被包裹的身体木乃伊。
Another amazing use of salt involves super-fast cars.
盐的另一种惊人的使用涉及超快的汽车.
Some deserts have very large, flat areas called salt flats.
有的沙漠有非常大,平地的地区叫盐平地.
The ground was once the bottom of a salty sea.
地上曾经是咸海的地底.
The land is very smooth because salt grains cover the ground.
由于盐谷覆盖了地表,土地非常平滑.
The salt also keeps plants from growing there.
盐也使植物不能在那里生长.
A jet car once went 763 miles (1,228 km) per hour on a salt flat in Nevada.
内华达州一盐位上的一款喷气式汽车一度时速763英里(1,228公里).
That is faster than many airplanes!
这比很多飞机还快!
Salt Sayings The saying “salt of the earth” describes people who are the best of their kind.
盐说 “地球之盐”的说法描述了最优秀的人。
It means a person you can rely on.
意思是你可以依赖一个人
Comparing someone to salt is a compliment.
把一个人比作盐是一种赞美。
It proves how important salt is to people.
这证明了盐对人们的重要性.
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It can be found in the sea and on the land.
可见于出海出地.
But it is hard to get the salt from these places.
但很难从这些地方得到盐。
Much of the salt in the world is dissolved in ocean water.
世界上大部分的盐被溶于海水.
To get the salt out, people in the past heated large pots of salt water over fires.
为了取出盐来 过去人们把大锅盐水加热到火上
Others filled ponds with ocean water.
其他的池塘充满了海水。
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The salt crystals stayed behind.
盐水晶所留.
People do not only get salt from the oceans.
人们不仅从海洋得到盐。
There are a few places in the world where rocks of white salt lie right on the ground.
世界上有几个地方 白盐岩石就埋在地上
You could pick one up, crush it, and sprinkle it right onto a bowl of popcorn.
你可以拿起一个,粉碎它, 然后把它洒到一碗爆米花上。
But these places are rare.
但是这些地方很少见.
Most salt on land is buried deep underground.
陆地上的大部分盐被埋入地底深处.
When people found salt buried underground, they dug it out and used it.
当人们发现被埋入地下的盐后,他们挖出并使用.
If there was a lot of salt and it was deep, workers would dig a mine.
如果盐多而地深,工人会挖出矿来.
Salt Sayings Working in a salt mine was hard work that most people did not enjoy.
盐说 在盐矿工作是大多数人不享受的艰苦工作。
When people return to work today, even at a job they like, they may say that they are going “back to the salt mines.”
当人们回到今天的工作,甚至从事他们喜欢的工作时,他们可以说,他们正在“回到盐矿去”。 “
Try This!
试试这个!
People living in Germany hundreds of years ago built a salt mine inside their mountains.
住在德国的人几百年前在他们的山上建造了一座盐矿.
Men broke off large rocks of salt with strong tools.
男人用强力的工具 断了大块的盐
They used animals to haul it out to the villages.
他们利用动物把它拖出村庄。
Giant wooden slides brought workers down into the mine and helped pull out the heavy salt rocks.
巨型木制滑行使工人倒入了矿中并帮助取出重盐石.
Today, there is a huge salt bed beneath part of the United States and Canada.
今天,美国和加拿大部分地区下面有一个巨大的盐床.
One of the biggest salt mines in the world is under the city of Detroit, Michigan.
世界上最大的盐矿之一位于密歇根州底特律市下.
There are about fifty miles of underground roads made of salt!
有大约50英里的地下道路 由盐制成!
The salt mine is as deep as the height of a tall building.
盐矿同高楼高地相去甚远.
Are You Worth Your Salt?
你值得你的盐吗?
Salt was hard to get in most places 2,000 years ago.
盐在两千年前 很难进入大部分地方
It was very expensive and had to be kept locked up.
它非常昂贵,必须被锁起来。
Salt was so special that some people were paid with salt instead of money!
盐很特别,有些人用盐而不是钱来支付!
Today, salt is very cheap and easy to find.
今天,盐非常便宜,很容易找得到.
Many places give it away for free.
许多地方都免费赠送.
You see it on the table at most restaurants.
在大多数餐厅的桌子上都能看到
Salt Sayings Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt.
盐·赛音斯罗马士兵有时用盐来支付报酬.
If a soldier didn’t do a good job, people might say that he wasn’t “worth his salt.”
如果一个士兵没有做好工作, 人们可能会说, “
In fact, the word salary comes from the name for the salt payments—salarium.
事实上,工资一词来自盐付款的名称——盐位。
How would you like to be paid in salt?
你想用盐付多少钱?
Ontario Michigan New Y ork Pennsylvania Ohio West Virginia Detroit CANADA UNITED STATES MEXICO N There is a large salt bed beneath the shaded area on the map.
美国 地图上阴影区下面有一个大盐床.
Much of the salt used today is not used with food.
今天使用的盐大多没有用上食物.
Salt makes it harder for water to freeze.
盐使水更难被冻.
So we put over half the salt that comes from mines onto icy roads and sidewalks.
所以我们把来自地雷的盐 放在冰冷的道路上和人行道上。
This helps keep cars from crashing and people from slipping.
这有助于防止汽车撞车和人们滑倒。
Imagine a visitor from 2,000 years ago seeing a huge truck just dumping precious salt on a road!
想象一下2000年前的一位游客 看到一辆大卡车在路上倾倒了宝贵的盐!
Be happy you live in a time when salt is easy to find.
很高兴你生活在一个容易找到盐的时代。
Your body needs salt to live—that’s crystal clear.
你的身体需要盐才能活下来,
You do not have to take that fact with a grain of salt.
你不必用一粒盐来接受这个事实。