💬 高三英语课文
共 919 条英汉对照例句 · 第 19 页
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Then, instead of having someone answering the phone all day, people can ring up the railway station and listen to a tape recording of the information.
然后，人们可以打电话到火车站，从录音电话中获取信息，而不要安排一个专人整天接电话。
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What is more, this information line operates 24 hours a day.
而且，这种"问讯线路每天工作24小时。
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What Caused The Fire ?
是什么引发了火灾？
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A navy ship was in a port in Scotland for repairs.
一艘军舰停靠在苏格兰的一个码头等待维修。
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It was important to carry out the work quickly, so an extra team of men were asked to work on the repairs one evening.
因为尽快投入修理工作显得十分重要，于是一天晚上加派了一支工作队来参加维修工作。
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They had to work inside the ship, cutting away old metal, fixing new metal plates, drilling holes, laying electrical and phone wires and fixing new pipes for water and steam.
他们要在船舱里工作，切掉旧的金属，焊接新的金属板，钻孔，埋电线和电话线以及安装新的水管和蒸汽管。
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The team started work on a new section inside the ship near the front.
工作队在靠近船头的船舱里的一段新区开始工作。
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One man was told to fix up an air-line to provide compressed air for the machines they were using.
有个工人被派去安装"供气管"，给他们正在使用的机器提供压缩空气。
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It took him some time to connect the long rubber pipe to the air supply pipe that ran round the port, but at last it was done and as a result work was able to progress much faster.
他花了不少时间把长长的橡胶管接到铺设在码头周围的空气供应管上，最后他终于把它们连接起来，工作因而进展得更快。
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After three hours, the men stopped for a meal break.
3小时之后，工人们停下来吃饭。
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When work continued, one man lit a cigarette as he was working, but, finding it had a strange taste, he put it out.
随后他们继续干活，一个工人在干活时点燃了一支香烟。可是他觉得有一股怪味，他就把烟灭了。
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Another man lit a cigarette but it burnt strangely and so he too put it out.
另一个工人点燃一支烟，但烟燃得怪怪的，于是他也把烟灭了。
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Half an hour later, another man struck a match for a cigarette and this time the whole of the inside of the ship caught fire.
半小时后，又一个工人擦亮火柴想点支香烟，这下整个船舱都起了火。
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As quickly as they could, the men ran to th steps and up into the open, many of them with their clothes on fire.
工人们尽快朝楼梯跑去，爬上楼梯跑出舱外，其中好多人衣服已经着火了。
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Most of them were able to climb out in time. However four men were not quick enough to escape the flames.
大部分工人能够及时逃生。可是有4个工人来不及逃离火场。
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Their burnt bodies were found later.
后来只找到他们被烧焦的尸体。
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It did not take the firefighters long to put out the fire, and they at once started to look for causes of the fire.
消防队员没花多时间就把大火扑灭了，他们马上开始调查火灾发生的原因。
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They were puzzled by several things.
有几件事情使他们感到迷惑不解。
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There had been fuel on the ship, but this did not appear to have caused the fire, and little smoke was produced.
很显然，船舱里已经发生了一场烈火，但是船舱内壁却完好无损。船上存放着汽油，但火灾似乎不是它引起的，因为没有冒出什么烟来。
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The man who had been working on the repairs mentioned the curious way their cigarettes burned and tasted.
一直在干修理工作的人提起了他们的香烟点燃时奇怪的样子以及怪怪的味道。
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The fire service began to wonder whether a gas might have caused the fire.
消防部门开始怀疑有一种气体可能会导致火灾。
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The question was, which one?
问题是，哪一种气体导致火灾呢？
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It must have been a gas that could burn but that would not explode, a gas that did not smell strong, and a gas that did not kill people.
它一定是一种能够燃烧而不能爆炸的气体，一种味道不很强的而且不使人致死的气体。
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The man who had fixed up the air-line was also questioned.
安装供气管的那位工人也被提问。
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He explained that he had tried to fix the air-line to the supply line that ran round the port but could not because the fittings did not match.
他解释说他想供气管安装到铺设在码头周围的供应管上，但因为接头不相配而接不上。
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So he had gone to the stores and had obtained a fixture that fitted both the tap on the supply line and the end of the air-line.
所以他就到仓库找到一个既适合供应管也适合供气管的接头。
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Once he had done this, he had been able to turn on the supply.
一旦他接上了接头，他就能够打开供气阀。
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They then knew that they had discovered the cause of the fire.
这时调查人员知道他们找到了发生火灾的原因了。
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The man had connected the air-line to a supply line of oxygen, not compressed air.
这个工人把供气管接到了氧气供应管上，而不是接到压缩空气管上。
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Oxygen is widely used in ship repairs for cutting and joining metal plates or pipes.
在船舶修理过程中，常常使用氧气切割和焊接金属板或金属管。