PETS2口語對(duì)話練習(xí)-161

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Bob:Not everyone, but most. Over seventy percent, at last count.
    Jun: How did Mormonism start, anyway?
    Bob:Joseph Smith, our prophet, received a vision from the Angel Moroni when he was a young man in New York. The angel told him where to find golden tablets with the word of God. Those tablets described how Jesus had come to America!
    Jun: That's very interesting. So those tablets were in English?
    Bob:They were in a mysterious language. Joseph Smith translated those tablets into The Book of Mormon in 1830.
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    鮑伯:并非人人都是,但大部分是。至少超過七成。
    小君:那摩門教是怎么開始的?
    鮑伯:當(dāng)我們的先知約瑟夫史密斯還是個(gè)住在紐約的年輕人時(shí),他見到來自天使摩羅乃的幻影。天使跟他說去哪里找到有神諭的黃金刻寫板。這些刻板上記載了耶穌是怎么來到美國的!
    小君:真有意思。所以這些刻寫板都是用英文寫的嗎?
    鮑伯:它們是用神秘的文字記載的。約瑟夫史密斯在一八三○年把這些刻寫板的字翻譯成《摩門經(jīng)》。
    重點(diǎn)解說
    ★ at last count 至少
    ★ prophet (n.) 先知
    ★ vision (n.) 幻覺,幻影
    ★ tablet (n.) 刻寫板
    ★ mysterious (a.) 神秘的