Copper Mine
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
The Queen Mine Tour parking lot sat virtually empty at 1:30 pm on a hot March day.
矿后 3月1日下午1点半,
Mom, Sam, and I were going on a tour of the old Bisbee, Arizona, copper mine at 2 pm.
妈妈,山姆,我和我去参观 旧的比斯比,亚利桑那,铜矿 在下午2点。
My favorite blue sweatshirt was tied around my waist.
我最喜欢的蓝色汗衫被绑在我的腰上
Mom said the mine was like Grandma’s house in Tennessee.
妈妈说矿井就像田纳西州的外婆家.
Not too cold, but not warm.
不太冷,但不温暖。
That translated into cool for me.
这对我来说是很酷的。
On the tour, I learned that the mine stays at about 47 degrees Fahrenheit.
在巡演中,我得知矿井停留在华氏47度左右.
Actually, that is downright cold to me.
事实上,这对我来说很冷.
I imagined walking through the front door of the Queen Mine Tour building and seeing a humongous gaping hole in a rock wall.
我想象着穿过皇后矿山旅游大厦的正门,看到一堵石墙上一个巨大的裂口.
Instead, I saw counters and shelves of gear on my right—yellow rain slickers, hardhats, and belt-looking things with lamps.
我右手边有柜子和货架,
There was an old fireplace spewing heat even though it was hot as the dickens outside.
虽然外面的鸡鸡热得要命 但火炉喷出热量
The room even smelled like Grandma’s house.
房间甚至有外婆家的味道.
Mom was more right than she thought.
妈妈比她想的更正确
The parking lot filled up as it got closer to the time of the tour.
停车场在接近旅游时间时被填满.
What I didn’t realize was that the rain slickers were for us.
我并没有意识到,
We had to put them on before going into the mine.
我们不得不在进入矿井之前穿上
I hated the whole idea of putting on a heavy vinyl coat that hardly let you breathe.
我最讨厌穿件厚重的外衣 让你喘不过气来
First, I put on my sweatshirt, then the yellow slicker.
首先,我穿上我的汗衫,然后是黄色花花公子。
It was stiff and made crackly sounds as I shoved my arms through the clammy holes.
它很僵硬 声音很尖锐 当我把手臂塞入了洞里
I immediately felt a weight around my waist as the tour guide placed a battery pack around me.
我立刻感到腰部有些重 当导游在我身边放了一个电池包
He showed me how to clip a lamp to my rain slicker; then, I heard it snap closed.
他教我如何把一盏灯插到我的花花筒上,然后我听到灯关上。
The best part was that I got to wear a hardhat.
最好的部分是 我得穿个硬帽。
It almost made the yucky, stiff feeling of the slicker worth the trip.
差点让滑行者觉得这段旅程值得
We walked through the building and out the back door to the outside.
我们穿过了大楼 然后从后门到外面
The sunlight hurt my eyes and made me see stars.
阳光伤害了眼睛 让我看到了星星
My sweatshirt and slicker weighed more than I thought they would.
我的汗衫和花花公子 比我想象的要重得多
We climbed on board what the tour guide called a man-car.
我们登上导游称之为"人行"的车
All of the sudden this was getting to be fun.
突然间,这变得很有趣。
Everyone had to straddle these padded benches in the center of each car like we were riding on the back of one long horse.
每个人都得在每辆车的中间 横穿这些被加的长凳 就像我们骑在一匹长马的后背
The guide started up the engine, which sounded like a big lawn mower, and the man-car chugged toward the mine.
引导器启动引擎, 它听起来像一个大割草机, 和人车堵住矿井。
We got about 100 feet into the mine when the tour guide stopped.
导游停站时,我们进入了矿井约100英尺.
He said that if anyone felt claustrophobic, they could get off and walk back.
他说,如果有人感到幽闭恐惧,他们可以下车走回.
Mom explained to me that some people are scared of tight places.
妈妈告诉我,有些人害怕地方紧凑。
I have to admit, the tunnel was pretty narrow and stuffy.
我不得不承认 隧道很狭窄很脏
No one turned back though.
但没人回头
And we’re off.
我们走了。
The clang, clang of metal wheels on metal tracks made a racket in the tunnel.
铁道上的铁轮在地道上引起轰动
The man-car vibrated as the angle going down got steeper.
人车震动,随着倾角向下变陡.
The lamps we clipped to our slickers soon became the only lights in the mine.
我们剪去的灯 很快就成了矿井里唯一的灯光
The man-car stopped on the third floor down.
车停在地上三楼
We got off and walked through a side tunnel.
我们下车走过一条地道
This tunnel was wide enough to fit about three people across.
这条地道宽到可以容纳三个人
The air in the mine smelled and tasted funny.
矿中出气有味有味有味.
It was like I was breathing bits of the copper.
就像我在呼吸铜片一样
It made my teeth hurt.
它让我的牙齿受伤。
The air was damp, too.
空气也湿了
Small patches of mud dotted the dirt floor.
小块地上被泥土点了点.
I could see why we needed the slickers as water drops fell from the rock above us.
我可以理解为什么我们需要浮油手 随着水从我们上面的岩石上掉下来
Through the spaces between wood slats on the tunnel walls, I could see dark rock.
穿过地道墙上木板之间的空间,我可以看到暗石.
A drill, top left, an ore shoot and an ore car, top right, and a toilet car, bottom.
一个钻头,左上方,一个矿石射击和一个矿石车,右上方,和一个厕所车,下方.
The guide told us stories about his work in the mine.
指导员向我们讲述了他在矿场工作的故事.
He showed us a cage, which is an elevator with wire mesh instead of walls.
他向我们展示了一个笼子, 这是一种电梯,有线网而不是墙壁。
He said it took miners all the way down to the bottom of the mine.
他说矿工们一直到矿底
They would cram the elevator full of miners and then go down.
他们会挤满矿工的电梯 然后下去
Miners really couldn’t be claustrophobic and keep their jobs.
矿工们真的不会幽闭恐惧症,
The guide showed us some holes in the wall.
向导向我们展示了墙上的一些洞.
Miners filled the holes with sticks of dynamite and wired them to blow up the rock.
矿工用炸药棒填满了洞口,并用电线把它炸出石头来.
The miners would blast the rock at the end of their shift.
矿工们会把石头炸掉
After a blast, the air would be thick with dust, making the air heavy and hard to breathe.
爆炸后,空气会被尘埃所粘稠,使空气沉重而难以呼吸.
The cage didn’t look like it would be fun to ride down into the mine.
笼子看起来不太好玩,
bottom right.
右边下.
We went to another part of the mine before we headed back to the top.
我们回到山顶之前去了另一个矿区
This part was a big room with lots of little cubbyholes.
这部分是一个大房间 有很多小孔。
The tour guide asked us to shine our lights on different parts of the room.
导游要求我们把灯光照到房间的不同地方。
I couldn’t believe it!
我简直不敢相信!
Every now and then, a light would glance off something with a dull shine.
每时每刻,一盏灯会以一盏淡淡的光照出一些东西.
He said that was malachite, a beautiful green mineral often found with copper ore.
他说那是恶作剧 一种绿色的矿物 常被铜矿石所发现
At one point in our tour, the guide had us all turn off our lamps.
在我们巡演的某一点,导游让我们都关了灯。
Oh, my gosh, it was so dark.
哦,我的天,它是如此的黑暗。
I had never been in total darkness before.
我从来没有在完全黑暗之前。
There was absolutely no light.
绝对没有光线。
I held my hand right in front of my face and I couldn’t even see it.
我手伸到脸前,
Just as I was beginning to feel scared, the guide had us turn our lamps back on.
就在我开始感到害怕的时候 导游让我们重新打开灯
The different shades of color in the ceiling showed us some minerals found in the mine.
天花板上不同颜色的阴影向我们展示了矿中发现的一些矿物.
The guide turned off the lights, and here I am waving my hand in front of my face, which I can’t see.
向导关了灯, 我眼前挥起手来,
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
When we got back to the top and the tour was done, I was happy to feel the sunshine.
当我们回到顶部,巡演完成后,我很高兴感受到阳光.
I couldn’t wait to get out of the slicker, heavy belt, and hardhat.
我迫不及待地想从滑雪者,
I ditched the gear where the guide said to, then ran to the fire to warm up.
我抛弃了向导说的装备 然后跑去取暖
I couldn’t believe I was so cold, but I was.
我不敢相信自己这么冷淡,
Though it was later than when we arrived, it was still a hot 90 degrees outside, and that felt warm against my cold skin.
虽然比我们来的时候晚了, 外面还是热90度, 那感觉温暖的我寒冷的皮肤。
Though I had enjoyed the trip through the mine, I had to admit that being a miner was not the job for me.
虽然我很享受穿过矿井的旅程 但我不得不承认 做矿工对我来说不是工作
Glossary battery pack an object that converts chemical energy into electric energy (p.
词汇电池装入将化学能转化为电能的物体(p.
6) claustrophobic afraid of small, tight places (p.
6) 幽闭恐惧症害怕小而紧的地方(p.
8) copper a soft red-brown metal (p.
8) 铜一软红褐色金属(p.
3) cubbyholes small spaces or rooms (p.
3)立体孔小空间或房间(p.
13) dynamite an explosive material used for blasting (p.
13) 爆炸用炸药(p.
12) gear the equipment needed for an activity (p.
12)为某项活动所需的设备提供设备(p.
4) hardhat a covering made of metal or plastic to protect the head (p.
4)用金属或塑料制成的盖子来保护头部(p.
6) humongous very large (p.
6) 雄厚的非常大(p.
4) mine a place where minerals are taken from the ground by digging or blasting (p.
4) 将矿物质从地上挖出或从地上取出(p.
3) ore a rock that has useful minerals or metals inside it (p.
3)矿石中含有有用矿物或金属的岩石(p.
13) tour a sightseeing trip (p.
13)参观观光之旅(p.
3) tunnel a passageway constructed underground (p.
3) 为地下修建的通道隧道(p.
8) Everyone leaves to go home.
8) 每个人都离开回家。