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Passage 2
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Hello, viewers.
各位参观者好！
Today I'm standing at a two-thousand-year-old Roman-era site.
我们现在站在有着两千年历史的罗马时期遗址上。
Here the brightly colored scenes that once decorated a mansion are being dug up.
这些颜色明亮的景象曾经装饰过一栋别墅，现在正在挖掘出来。
These scenes are turning up in the southern French city of Oral, surprising the historians who have been working here since two thousand fourteen,
这些景象都出现在法国南部城市欧乐，这令历史学家们感到惊奇，他们从2014年开始一直在这里工作，
patches of paint still clinging to the stone walls of the bedroom and reception hall.
画上修补的部分仍留在卧室和接待厅的石墙上。
Some of these painted walls are preserved in places to a height of one meter.
一些绘有壁画的墙保存在一米高的地方。
In addition, thousands of fragments that fell off the walls have been recovered, these pieces have been put back together with great care and display a variety of images.
另外，墙上脱落的无数碎片已经得到修复，这些碎片被小心翼翼地放回原处，呈现各种不同的图像。
Some of these images include figures never seen before in France, such as a woman playing a stringed instrument, possibly a character from mythology.
一些画中包括之前在法国从没有出现过的形象，例如一位女性在演奏弦乐，可能是神话中的人物。
The paintings were done with such skill and with such expensive dyes that experts believe the artist originally came from Italy.
这些画都是以高超的技巧和昂贵的颜料创作，以至于专家们认为艺术家来自于意大利。
They were likely hired by one of the city's elite, perhaps a Roman official wanted Pompeii-like interior to remind him of home.
他们可能是由城市的某位精英雇用，可能是一位罗马官员想有庞贝古城那样的内部，让他感觉到在自己家里。
He was probably stationed in this provincial trading port, founded in 46 B. C. as a colony for veterans of the Roman army.
他可能驻扎在这个省级贸易港口，这里于公元前46年建立，是罗马军队老兵的殖民地。
Or maybe a wealthy local wanted to show off his worldly sophistication.
或许是当地一个富人想要显示自己的老练。
The paintings may yield even more stunning surprises as additional sections are put together, like pieces of a puzzle,
当其他部分像拼图游戏一样拼到一起的时候，这些画甚至可能带来更令人震惊的惊奇。
whoever it was that created such magnificent pieces of art, they surely had no idea that their work would still be around thousands of years later.
无论是谁创造了这些壮观的艺术，他们肯定不知道其作品会保留几千年。
12.Where is the speaker standing?
12.叙述者正站在何处？
13.What do the thousands of fragments display when they are put back together?
13.当数千块碎片拼到一起时呈现了什么？
14.What makes experts think the paintings were done by artists from Italy?
14.专家为何会觉得这些画是由意大利艺术家创作？
15.What do we learn from the passage about the owner of the mansion?
15.从文中我们可以了解别墅主人的什么信息？
