2024雅思考试听力材料-听力对话训练 15
雅思听力在考试中占据着重要的地位，时常用听力材料来磨耳朵可以不断巩固大脑的英语语言能力。以下是雅思听力材料，您可以结合MP3和下方的原文及翻译进行听力学习。
听力原文及翻译
A: So, Michelle, shall we make a start on our presentation? We haven't got that much time left.
A: 那么，米歇尔，我们开始着手我们的展示吧？我们没有那么多时间了。
B: No, Adam, but at least we've done all the background reading. I found it really interesting. I've never even heard of the Laki eruption before this.
B: 不行，亚当，但至少我们已经做了所有的背景阅读。我发现它真的很有趣。在此之前我从没听说过拉基火山爆发。
A: Me neither. I suppose1783is a long time ago.
A: 我也是。我想1783年是很久以前的事了。
B: But it was a huge eruption and it had such devastating consequences.
B: 但那是一次巨大的喷发，造成了毁灭性的后果。
A: I know, It was great. There were so many primary sources to look at, It really gives you a sense of how catastrophic the volcano was. People were really trying to make sense of the science for the first time.
A: 我知道，真的很巨大。有很多第一手资料可供参考，它真的能让你感受到火山的灾难性。那是人们第一次真正想要理解科学。
B: That's right. But what I found more significant was how it impacted, directly and indirectly, on political events as well as having massive social and economic consequences.
B: 没错。但我发现更重要的是，它如何直接或间接地影响政治事件，以及产生巨大的社会和经济后果。
A: Hmm, I know. That should be the main focus of our presentation.
A: 嗯，我知道。这应该是我们演讲的重点。
B: The observations made by people at the time were interesting, weren't they? I mean, they all gave a pretty consistent account of what happened, even if they didn't always use the same terminology.
B: 当时人们的观察很有趣，不是吗?我的意思是，他们对发生的事情都给出了相当一致的描述，即使他们并不总是使用相同的术语。
A: Yeah. I was surprised there were so many weather stations established by that time. So you know, you can see how the weather changed often by the hour.
A: 是的。我很惊讶在那个时候建立了这么多气象站。所以你知道，你可以看到天气是如何按小时变化的。
B: Right. The writers at the time talked about the Laki haze to describe the volcanic fog that spread across Europe. They all realized that this wasn't the sort of fog they were used to. And of course, this was in pre-industrial times, so they hadn't experienced sulfur-smelling fog before.
B: 是的。当时的作家们用“拉基雾霾”来形容遍布欧洲的火山雾。他们都意识到这不是他们所习惯的那种雾。当然，这是在前工业时代，所以他们之前没有经历过硫磺味的雾。
A: No, that's true.
A: 是的，那是真的。
B: Reports from the period blamed the haze for an increase in headaches, respiratory issues, and asthma attacks. And they all describe how it covered the sun and made it look a strange red color.
B: 那段时间的报告指责雾霾导致了头痛、呼吸系统疾病和哮喘发作的增加。他们都描述了它是如何遮住太阳，使太阳看起来像一种奇怪的红色。
A: Hmm, must have been very weird.
A: 嗯，那一定很奇怪。
B: It's interesting that Benjamin Franklin wrote about the haze. Did you read that? He was the American ambassador in Paris at the time.
B: 有趣的是，本杰明·富兰克林写过关于雾霾的文章。你读了吗?他当时是美国驻巴黎大使。
A: Yeah. At first, no one realized that the haze was caused by the volcanic eruption in Iceland.
A: 是的。起初，没有人意识到雾霾是由冰岛火山爆发造成的。
B: It was Benjamin Franklin who realized that before anyone else.
B: 是本杰明·富兰克林最先意识到这一点的。
A: He's often credited with that apparently, but a French naturalist beat him to it. I can't remember his name, I'd have to look it up. Then other naturalists had the same idea, all independently of each other.
A: 显然，他经常被认为是这方面的功人，但一位法国博物学家比他先做到了。我记不起他的名字了，我得查一下。后来其他博物学家也有了同样的想法，而且都是各自独立的。
B: Oh right. We should talk about the immediate impact of the eruption which was obviously enormous, especially in Iceland where so many people died.
B: 嗯，是的。我们应该谈谈火山爆发的直接影响，这显然是巨大的，特别是在冰岛，有很多人死亡。
A: You'd expect that, and the fact that the volcanic ash drifted so swiftly, but not that the effects would go on for so long, or that two years after the eruption. Strange weather events were being reported as far away as North America and North Africa.
A: 你会预料到这一点，而且事实上火山灰漂浮得如此之快，但没有预料到影响会持续这么长时间，或者在喷发后两年。据报道，远在北美和北非都出现了奇怪的天气现象。
B: No, I found all that hard to believe too, It must have been terrible, and there was nothing anyone could do about it, even if they knew the ash cloud was coming in their direction.
B: 不，我觉得这一切也很难相信。那一定很可怕，而且任何人都无能为力，即使他们知道火山灰云正朝他们的方向飞来。
以上就是本期的雅思听力练习，希望对您的听力水平有所帮助。您也可以访问网站主页，获取最新的英语学习资料，全方位提升英语能力。
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