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HOW CANDY MINTS ARE MADE
如何生產薄荷糖
Milton Wright
作者：米爾登·賴特
Do you know that when you open a package of candy mints, your hands are the first that have ever touched them? You say, “Somebody must have made them.” But you are wrong. Fingers and hands and arms of iron and steel and leather did the work, as this story will tell you.
你知道嗎？當你打開一包薄荷糖的時候，你的手是第一個接觸到它們的人。你會說，“肯定有人生產。”但你錯了。就像這個故事告訴你的那樣，鐵、鋼和皮革制成的手指、手和手臂起了作用。
To learn how candy mints are made, we journeyed to the biggest factory of the kind in the country. The materials they contain are sugar and mint flavor—nothing else. Granulated sugar, received in barrels, is emptied into a conveyor near the receiving platform on the first floor. A continuous bucket elevator carries it to the roof, where it is stored in hoppers until used. Up to the roof of the building go the raw materials. Down, down they come, rolling, sliding, tumbling, falling, passing through this piece of machinery and that, until they come out on the second floor, wrapped and in cartons ready for delivery. In all the work no hands have touched them.
為了了解糖果薄荷糖是如何制造的，我們去了全國最大的糖果工廠。它們所含的原料是糖和薄荷味的——沒有別的了。砂糖裝在桶里，被倒入一樓接收臺附近的傳送帶里。一個連續的斗式升降機將它運到屋頂，在那里它被儲存在料斗中直到使用。原材料一直堆到屋頂。滑、滾、下降、穿過這片機器，直到他們出來在二樓，包裝和紙箱準備交貨。在所有的工作中，沒有人碰過糖果們。
