地道美语听力播客864: 参观文明遗址

Lillian: Look at this! I’m going to take this home as a souvenir.

利安：快看!我打算把这个带回家做纪念品

Bruce: You can’t do that. That might be an artifact of some kind. It belongs to this archaeological site.

布鲁斯：你不能那样做。那只是一件手工艺品，这属于这处文化遗址一部分

Lillian: It’s just a rock. No one will miss it.

利安：那只是一块石头。没人会知道的

Bruce: That’s not the point. Everything here should be preserved. That’s the point of doing a careful excavation. Everything should be recorded and nothing should be lost.

布鲁斯：这不是重点，这里的每一件东西都要被保护。这是开采这处文化遗址的原因，每一件物品都要记录，不能有一个遗失

Lillian: Take it easy. It’s not like I’m defacing anything. And if they’re trying to preserve this site, why are they doing this dig? Wouldn’t it be better just to leave it frozen in time?

利安：放心，我不会损坏什么东西的，再说了，如果他们真的要保护这处遗址，干嘛还把它开采出来呢，让它们一直被封冻着不好吗

Bruce: The point is to learn more about the peoples of ancient civilizations who lived here in prehistory.

布鲁斯：关键是让人们学习史前在这里存在过的古代文明

Lillian: In my opinion, it’s disrespectful to disturb burial mounds and tombs. They were never meant to be desecrated like this.

利安：要我说，打扰这些埋在地下的坟墓和遗址是亵渎神明的，他们不应该这样亵渎它们

Bruce: Some people would agree with you, but that’s the price we have to pay to add to our knowledge about human history. I really think you should leave that rock where you found it. It could be a fossil.

布鲁斯：有些人跟你的观点一致，但是我们必须为增加关于人类历史知识付出代价。我真的觉得你应该把那块石头放回原处，这有可能是块化石

Lillian: Do you really think so?

利安：你真的这样认为吗

Bruce: You never know. You could hold in your hand the key to understanding this entire civilization

布鲁斯：你永远都不会知道。你手里拿的有可能是了解整个文明的重要线索.

Lillian: Wow, if I take it, I could preserve it for posterity.

利安：好吧，如果我把它拿走，我可以为子孙后代留着

Bruce: What happened to leaving things undisturbed?

布鲁斯：把物品放置不被打扰，不行吗

Lillian: That’s before I realized I could go down in history for my own discovery!

利安：那只会发生在我意识到我的发现能够流传历史之前