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In the twinkling of an eye each orange was wrapped and placed, right side up, in a packing box.
一眨眼的功夫，包裝完成了，每個(gè)橘子都正面朝上，放在包裝箱里。
"How many boxes can you pack in a day?"
“你一天能裝多少箱?”
Jane asked one of the swiftest packers.
簡(jiǎn)問(wèn)其中一個(gè)包裝最快的工人。
The busy fingers did not stop a moment as the worker answered: " Maybe ninety boxes, working nine or ten hours a day."
工人手指不停地回答道：“大概有90箱，每天工作9到10個(gè)小時(shí)。”
Now a box had been filled. In fact it looked to Jane as if it were too full.
現(xiàn)在完成了一箱。事實(shí)上，在簡(jiǎn)看來(lái)，里面的橘子太多了。
The box was lifted on to another moving belt, which carried it to the place where a cover was waiting for it.
箱子被吊到另一條移動(dòng)的傳送帶上，傳送帶把這些箱子帶到一個(gè)地方，等著蓋上蓋子。
Jane saw the lids being nailed on rapidly by a young man.
簡(jiǎn)看見一個(gè)年輕人迅速釘上了蓋子。
As he put on each cover, he gave the box a sudden shake, drove the nails in—one, two, three, four—fastened a metal strap over the top,
所有箱子都蓋上蓋子之后，他突然搖了一下箱子，把釘子釘進(jìn)去——一、二、三、四——在上面系上一根金屬帶，
and put the box aside finished. All this he did in one minute.
然后放到一邊，不到一分鐘就完成了。
Jane and the oranges said farewell to the packing house at the same moment.
此時(shí)，簡(jiǎn)和橘子們向包裝工廠告別。
The boxes of fruit were wheeled across a narrow platform into a refrigerator car which was waiting on the rail- way track close to the entrance of the packing house.
成箱的水果被推到狹窄的臺(tái)子上，然后放進(jìn)冷藏車，車子停在包裝廠附近的鐵軌上。
The little girl stood on the platform and saw hundreds of boxes piled into the train,
小女孩站在站臺(tái)上，看到火車上堆著幾百個(gè)箱子，
and she knew that in New York or Massachusetts or Ohio or Wisconsin some other little girl would soon be eating a breakfast orange.
簡(jiǎn)知道，在紐約、馬薩諸塞、俄亥俄或威斯康辛州的其他一些小女孩很快就會(huì)吃到早餐橘子。
