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1. 中英文逐句转述

嗨，女士们先生们，你们喜欢寻宝么？

Hey, Ladies and gentlemen, do you like treasure-hunting?

如果是的话，你应该认真听下面的内容。

If you do, you should listen very carefully to this :

有一些专业的探宝人发明了一种神奇的机器,叫做“探宝神器”。这个机器可以准确地探测埋在地下的黄金。

A group of professional treasure-hunters have invented a magic machine called “The Revealer”, which can accurately detect gold buried in the ground.

他们非常确信，这个机器将会使寻宝变得更简单更高效。

They are confident that this machine will make treasure-hunting much easier and more efficient.

【be confident that... = be sure that

If you are confident that something is true, you are sure that it is true.】

最近，一个寻宝队在一个海边的山洞里使用了这个机器，据说，海盗曾在这个地方藏金子但是后来没有去取走。

Recently a search party used it in a cave near the seashore, where it is said pirates used to hide gold and but (they) often failed to collect it.

配备了最先进的技术，“探宝神器”开始在地面上工作了，它努力确定埋藏宝藏的位置。

Armed with the latest technologies, the Revealer started to work on the ground, trying to locate the position of buried treasure.

突然，机器发出了“哔”的声音，这表示地下有金子。

Suddenly, there was a loud beep coming from the machine, which indicated that there was gold under the ground.

这个发现让寻宝队极其兴奋，他们很快挖了一个大概1米深的洞。

Extremely excited by the discovery, the search party quickly dug a hole around one metre deep.

他们发现了什么呢？

What did they find ?

令他们很失望的是，他们只找到了一个几乎没有价值的小金币。

Much to their disappointment, they found nothing but a small gold coin which was almost valueless.【nothing but = only】

当然，他们不会轻易放弃。

Of course, they wouldn’t easily give up.

在彻底搜寻了整个山洞之后，他们的确发现了一个更大的东西。

After searching the whole cave thoroughly, they did find something bigger.

【thoroughly = completely】

是什么呢？

What was that ?

只不过是一个空的铁皮箱。

It was just an empty tin trunk.

【trunk n.大旅行箱tin是金属锡，镀锡铁tinplate，俗称“马口铁” 】

尽管如此，这些寻宝人很乐观相信，探宝器能够很快找到一些有价值的东西。

Despite this, these treasure hunters are still optimistic that the Revealer can reveal something of enormous value fairly soon.

【despite = in spite of enormous adj.巨大的，极大的

optimistic adj.乐观的；enormous adj.表示程度大

fairly adj. 相当地（比very程度轻）= to some extent but not very】

可能，寻宝的快乐更在于寻找的过程本身，而不仅是宝藏的发现。

Perhaps the pleasure of treasure hunting lies more in the process of hunting itself than in the discovery of treasure.

2. 全英文转述

Hey, Ladies and gentlemen, do you like treasure-hunting?

If you do, you should listen very carefully to this: A group of professional treasure-hunters have invented a magic machine called “The Revealer”, which can accurately detect gold buried in the ground. They are confident that this machine will make treasure-hunting much easier and more efficient.

Recently a search party used it in a cave near the seashore, where it is said pirates used to hide gold and but (they) often failed to collect it. Armed with the latest technologies, the Revealer started to work on the ground, trying to locate the position of buried treasure.

Suddenly, there was a loud beep coming from the machine, which indicated that there was gold under the ground.Extremely excited by the discovery, the search party quickly dug a hole around one metre deep.

What did they find ?

Much to their disappointment, they found nothing but a small gold coin which was almost valueless. Of course, they wouldn’t easily give up. After searching the whole cave thoroughly, they did find something bigger.

What was that ?

It was just an empty tin trunk. Despite this, these treasure hunters are still optimistic that the Revealer can reveal something of enormous value fairly soon. Perhaps the pleasure of treasure hunting lies more in the process of hunting itself than in the discovery of treasure.

3.文化点评

海盗真的喜欢藏宝么？-- Treasure Island的故事

A buried treasure is an important part of the popular beliefs surrounding pirates.

According to popular conception, pirates often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return for them later, often with the use of treasure maps.

In reality, pirates rarely buried treasure.

Why do people have such a perception of pirates?

To a large degree, such a perception is influenced by a famous novel Treasure Island.

Treasure Island is an adventure novel written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in 1881, narrating(讲述) a tale of "pirates and buried gold".

In the story, an English teenager Jim Hawkins gets a treasure map from an old seaman who resides(居住) at Jim's parents' inn.

【注意听：在描述小说情节的时候，为啥可以用一般现在时？】

It turns out that the map is of the island where a deceased（去世的）pirate, Captain Flint buried his treasure.

A local wealthy landowner John Trelawney proposes buying a ship and going after the treasure, taking the local physician Livesey as ship's doctor and Jim as cabin boy.

However, on the voyage, they meet 19 evil pirates who are also hunting for the treasure.

They fight against those pirates and defeat them.

In the end , they find the treasure on the island and sail home.

书中的island在真实世界中，叫Cocos Island

It is now a national park of Costa Rica.

It has become a mysterious island because of pirates and their buried treasure.