PETS－2每日对话练习 161

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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　　鲍伯：并非人人都是，但大部分是。至少超过七成。
　　小君：那摩门教是怎么开始的？
　　鲍伯：当我们的先知约瑟夫史密斯还是个住在纽约的年轻人时，他见到来自天使摩罗乃的幻影。天使跟他说去哪里找到有神谕的黄金刻写板。这些刻板上记载了耶稣是怎么来到美国的！
　　小君：真有意思。所以这些刻写板都是用英文写的吗？
　　鲍伯：它们是用神秘的文字记载的。约瑟夫史密斯在一八三○年把这些刻写板的字翻译成《摩门经》。
　　重点解说：
　　 ★ at last count 至少
　　 ★ prophet (n.) 先知
　　 ★ vision (n.) 幻觉，幻影
　　 ★ tablet (n.) 刻写板
　　 ★ mysterious (a.) 神秘的