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Lesson 6 I wonder what happen to you this week,Jake.
杰克，我想知道你我個星期怎么了
Good morning,I'm Jake Seltzer,and this is"Hello America."
早晨好，我是杰克.薩爾茨，這是“你好，美國”節目。
Today.Stamford is a city of big office buildings.It didn't use to be.
今天，斯坦福德是個滿是現代化寫字樓的城市。
Fifty years ago,it was a city of factories.
但過去不是，五十年前，這里到處是工廠。
At the Stamford Historical Museum,
在斯坦福德歷史博物館里
we looked at all the products that Stamford factories used to make.
我們看到了過去斯坦福德工廠生產的所有產品。
People used to call Stamford"The lock City"
人們過去稱斯坦福德為“鎖城”，
because this company-Yale & Towne Lock-had its factories here.
是因為這家名叫耶魯湯尼的鎖業公司曾在斯坦福德設有工廠。
Yale used to employ four out of five people in this town...
當時鎮上每五個人中就有四個人在耶魯上班...
The company could produce hundreds of looks in a day...
公司過去一天生產數百套鎖...
They could produce millions in a year.
一年能生產數百萬套。
You can't find a typewriter like this anyone,
現在你現也看不到這樣的打字機了，
but it used to be the most popular typewriter in the world.
但它曾經是世界上最行的打字機。
And a Stamford company used to make it.
斯坦福德的一家公司過去就職生產這種打字機。
This is a postage meter.Pitney Bowes made the first one in 1919.
這是蓋戳機.皮特尼，鮑在1919年生產了第一臺蓋戳機。
A postage meter can stamp mail automatically.
蓋戳機可以自動為信件蓋上郵戳。
But before 1919,it didn't use to be so easy.
但在1919后以前，這項工作可不那么輕松。
They used to stamp letters by hand in those days.
那時候人們都是手工蓋戳。
Now they use postage meters.
而現在他們用上了蓋戳機。
Postal workers could stamp about a dozen letters in a minute with this machine.
當時，郵局工人用這種機器一分鐘大約能蓋十二封信。
Shaving didn't use to be so easy.
過去，刮胡子可不那么容易。
Back then,men used ot shave by hand.They couln't shave in a hurry...
那時，男人們手動刮胡子。他們刮不快...
Then,Jacob Schick invented the electric razor.
后來扎考伯.史克發明了電動剃須刀。
Today,men use electric razors,and they can shave quickly and easily.
現在男人們都用電動剃須刀，可以刮得又快又輕松。
The Schick factories used to be in Stamford,but they aren't here anyone.
史克工廠過去曾在斯坦福德，但現在不在這兒了。
Stamford workers used to make most of the world's glass tubes.
斯坦福德的工人們過去生產世界上大部分的玻璃管。
At Machlett Laboratories,glassblowers used to make thousnds of them every day.
在馬徹里特工廠，人們過去每天生產數千只玻璃管，
A good glassblower could make a glass tube like this one in fifteen minutes.
一個好的玻璃管工十五分鐘能制作一個這樣的玻璃管。
But he couldn't work for more than three of four hours without a break.
但他們不能連續工作三、四個小時，
It was too hot,Now most-X-ray tubes are made by machines.
因為工廠里太熱了，現在大部分的X光玻璃管都是機器生產的。
Stamford factory workers used to make all these products.
所有這些產品都是過去斯坦福德的工廠生產的。
Stamford used to be a factory town.
那時斯埂福德是個工業城。
Today,it is a corporate city with offices instead of factories.
現在則是一個辦公樓林立的商業中心。早已沒有昔日那種工廠云集的樣子了。
We hope you enjoyed our feature today.
希望您喜歡我們今天的節目，
Please tune in tomorrow.I'm Jake Seltzer and this is "Hello America".
歡迎明天繼續收看，我是杰克.薩爾茨.這是"你好美國"節目.
What's wrong.Jake?We're done.You can get up.
怎么了,杰克?我們已經錄完了,你可以起來了.
It's strange.During my report,I couldn't read the teleprompter.
好奇怪,剛才報道時,我看不清提示機上的字.
I didn't use to have trouble reading it.
過去可從沒這樣過.
Maybe you need glasses.
也許你要戴眼鏡.
Glasses!Last week I could read without glasses.
戴眼鏡!上個星期我還可以不戴眼鏡就能看清楚呢!
Hmmm,I wonder what happened to you this week,Jake.
嗯,杰克,我想知道你這個星期是怎么了?
This is an end of lesson 6.
第六課已經結束了。
