Part I
Welcome to Manham Port, where a thousand years of history are brought to life. All the family can enjoy a day out at Manham: visit our copper mine, see models of the machinery it used, have your photo taken in nineteenth-century costume, experience at first hand how people lived at different stages throughout history, and especially how children studied, worked and played.The port of Manham is located in beautiful and peaceful countryside, on a bend in the great River Avon, and developed here because it's the highest navigable point of the Avon—boats can go no higher up this river—and proved a handy place to load and unload cargo to and from the sea, which is over 23 miles away.A small port was already established here when, about 900 years ago, tin was discovered nearby, though it wasn't until the Industrial Revolution, when a tremendous need for metals of all kinds developed, that Manham expanded to become one of the busiest ports in the country.大约900年前，附近发现了锡矿，当时这里已经建立了一个小港口。但直到工业革命时期，对各种金属的巨大需求出现后，Manham才发展成为该国最繁忙的港口之一。to make sb/sth more interesting or exciting使更有趣；使更生动E.g.:Flowers can bring a dull room back to life.
鲜花可使沉闷的房间恢复生气。
noun. a deep hole or holes under the ground where minerals such as coal, gold, etc. are dug矿井；矿E.g.: a copper/diamond mine
铜╱钻石矿
noun. the clothes worn by people from a particular place or during a particular historical period（某地或某历史时期的）服装，装束
E.g.: men and women in eighteenth-century costume
身着18世纪服装的男男女女
noun. a curve or turn, especially in a road or river（尤指道路或河流的）拐弯，弯道E.g.: a sharp bend in the road
道路的急拐弯
adj. (of rivers, etc.河流等) wide and deep enough for ships and boats to sail on可航行的；适于通航的
E.g.: the navigable portion of the Nile
尼罗河的适航河段
adj. located near to sb/sth; located or stored in a convenient place近便；便利
E.g.: Our house is very handy for the station.
我们家离车站很近。
6. tin锡; manganese 锰; arsenic 砷; silicon 硅; phosphorus 磷; zinc 锌; bronze 青铜; nickel 镍; gold 金; silver 银; copper 铜; lead 铅; aluminum 铝; mercury 汞; potassium 钾; sodium 钠; calcium 钙And because it was already so busy, prospectors began to look for other minerals, and by the end of the nineteenth century, lead, copper, manganese and arsenic were added to the cargos leaving Manham. In the early days, the ores had been smelted—or processed—in the same area they were mined. But, as demand grew, the smelting process required huge factory furnaces or fires to melt the metal from the rock and there was not enough coal in the local area, so the rocks containing minerals had to be shipped long distances. Sadly, in the twentieth century, the great port of Manham declined, and thousands of workers were forced to emigrate out of the area. The building at the port fell into disrepair, and the place became almost forgotten.但是，随着需求的增长，冶炼过程需要巨大的工厂熔炉或火堆来熔化岩石中的金属，而当地煤炭不足，因此含有矿物的岩石必须长途运输。1. prospector |ˈprɑːspektər|noun. a person who searches an area for gold, minerals, oil, etc.勘探者；探矿者
noun. rock, earth, etc. from which metal can be obtained矿石；矿砂；矿E.g.: a huge iron ore mine
一个储量巨大的铁矿
verb. to heat and melt ore (= rock that contains metal) in order to obtain the metal it contains熔炼，提炼（金属）
E.g.: a method of smelting iron
一种炼铁方法
noun. a space surrounded on all sides by walls and a roof for heating metal or glass to very high temperatures熔炉E.g.: It's like a furnace (= very hot) in here!
这里热得像火炉！
verb. to leave your own country to go and live permanently in another country移居国外；移民
E.g.: He emigrated to Belgium.
他移民去了比利时。
noun. a building, road, etc. that is in a state of disrepair has not been taken care of and is broken or in bad condition失修；破败；破损
E.g.: The station quickly fell into disrepair after it was closed.
车站关闭后很快便破败不堪。
Part III
But then, the Manham Trust was formed to conserve the historical resources of the area. It organised scores of local volunteers to remove undergrowth to find the original outlines of the installations. It then brought in paid professionals to match installations with maps of the original port complex and to set about reconstructing it. Today you can see the results of this ambitious programme of restoration. The intention, and we believe this will be realised before the end of the year, is to return Manham Port to the condition it reached at its peak as ‘the greatest copper port in the country’. But what can you do and see on your visit today? Here are just a few highlights.We suggest you start with the visit to the copper mine. Travel on converted mining trains and journey into the depths of the mountain along seams once worked by hundreds of miners. Watch out especially for the great pumping machines which rid the mine of water. But please be warned that, like all mines, ours is very dark and closed-in and we do say that children under five and also dogs should NOT be taken into the mine.它组织了数十名当地志愿者清除灌木丛，以找到这些装置的原始轮廓。乘坐改造后的矿用火车，沿着曾经数百名矿工开采过的矿脉深入山脉深处。noun.an arrangement by which an organization or a group of people has legal control of money or property that has been given to sb, usually until that person reaches a particular age; an amount of money or property that is controlled in this way委托；信托；信托财产E.g.: The money will be held in trust until she is 18.
这笔钱将由人代管到她18岁为止。
if you refer to scores of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them 大量
E.g.: Campaigners lit scores of bonfires in ceremonies to mark the anniversary.
参加活动的人们在仪式上点起了许多堆篝火，以庆祝这一周年纪念日。
3. undergrowth |ˈʌndərɡroʊθ|noun. a mass of bushes and plants that grow close together under trees in woods and forests下层灌木丛（指林木下的）
E.g.: They used their knives to clear a path through the dense undergrowth.
他们用刀在浓密的灌木丛中劈开一条小路。
4. installation|prɪˈzuːm|noun. a piece of equipment or machinery that has been fixed in position so that it can be used安装的设备（或机器）
E.g.: a heating installation
供暖装置
noun. a group of buildings of a similar type together in one place（类型相似的）建筑群
E.g.: a low-cost apartment complex
一个低价公寓楼群
to start doing sth开始做；着手做
E.g.: We need to set about finding a solution.
我们得着手寻找一个解决办法。
7. restoration |ˌrestəˈreɪʃn|noun. the work of repairing and cleaning an old building, a painting, etc. so that its condition is as good as it originally was整修；修复
E.g.: The palace is closed for restoration.
王宫因整修而停止开放。
noun. the point when sb/sth is best, most successful, strongest, etc.顶峰；高峰
E.g.: She's at the peak of her career.
她正处在事业的巅峰。
noun. the best, most interesting or most exciting part of sth最好（或最精彩、最激动人心）的部分
E.g.: One of the highlights of the trip was seeing the Taj Mahal.
这次旅行中的最精彩的一件事是参观泰姬陵。
verb. if you convert a vehicle or piece of equipment, you change it so that it can use a different fuel 改装
E.g.: Save money by converting your car to run on used vegetable oil.
通过改装你的汽车使其燃烧用过的植物油来省钱。
noun. a thin layer of coal or other material, between layers of rock under the ground矿层；煤层
E.g.: They struck a rich seam of iron ore.
他们开出一个富铁矿层。
to remove sth that is causing a problem from a place, group, etc.去除；清除
E.g.: Further measures will be taken to rid our streets of crime.
将采取进一步的措施来防止街头犯罪。
adj. oppressively enclosed or lacking in space令人窒息的封闭或空间不足
E.g.: her distress at being in closed-in places
她对身处封闭空间感到不安
The next recommended visit is to the village school. While looking round the classrooms, take a special look at our display of games, which is one of the largest in the world. And it’s recommended that you time your visit to coincide with a guided tour. This will give you the opportunity to ask lots of questions. Near the school is the beautiful old sailing ketch called ‘The George'. You are welcome to board the boat and look round the cabins. Look out for the ship's wheel which was missing until only five years ago when it was dredged out of the silt by a local fisherman. We have no idea how it got there but it's been polished and proudly restored to its original place on the boat. Please take care going down the ladders if you wish to visit the lower deck—we don't recommend you allow young children to use them. So we hope you have a memorable visit to Manham Port and will tell your friends all about us.我们不知道它是怎么到那里的，但它已被擦亮，并自豪地恢复到船上的原位。verb. to arrange to do sth or arrange for sth to happen at a particular time为…安排时间；选择…的时机E.g.: She timed her arrival for shortly after 3.verb.(of two or more events两件或更多的事情) to take place at the same time同时发生
E.g.: It's a pity our trips to New York don't coincide.
真遗憾我们不能同一时间去纽约旅行。
verb. a sailing boat with two masts (= posts to support the sails)双桅帆船
noun. a small room on a ship in which you live or sleep（轮船上工作或生活的）隔间
verb. to bring sth up from the bottom of a river, etc. using a boat or special machine打捞；采捞；捞取
E.g.: waste dredged (up) from the seabed
从海底打捞出的废物
verb. to make sth smooth and shiny by rubbing it with a cloth, often with polish on it擦光；磨光
E.g.: Polish shoes regularly to protect the leather.
要经常擦鞋，以保护皮革。
noun. one of the floors of a ship or a bus（船或公共汽车的）一层，层面
E.g.: the upper/lower/main deck of a ship
船的上层╱下层╱主甲板
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