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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Bridge to the past︰ Massachusetts opens 220-year-old time capsule通往過去之橋：麻薩諸塞州開啟220歲的時空膠囊
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A 220-year-old time capsule containing coins, documents and other artifacts left by U.S. founding fathers Samuel Adams and Paul Revere was opened by Massachusetts officials on Tuesday.
一個220年之久的時空膠囊週二由麻州官方開啟，內含硬幣、文件與其他由美國建國之父山繆．亞當斯與保羅．列維爾遺留之手工藝品。
The corroded 10-pound （4.5-kg） brass box, removed from beneath the state house last month, was painstakingly dismantled and unpacked by custodians at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts in a gallery hung with oil portraits of both men.
這個10磅（4.5公斤）重的鏽蝕銅盒，上個月由麻州議會大廈底下移出，在波士頓美術館一處掛有亞當斯與列維爾兩人油畫的藝廊內，由管理員煞費苦心地拆解並開啟。
Among the items in the box were two dozen coins including a 1652 Pine Tree Shilling struck by colonists in defiance of England, a bronze medal portraying George Washington, a silver plate made by Revere, and colonial records and newspapers.
在盒子裡的物品之中有兩打硬幣，包括1個1652年由蔑視英國的殖民地居民所鑄造的松樹先令，1個鑄有喬治．華盛頓的銅牌，1個列維爾製造的銀盤， 以及殖民紀錄與報紙。
The capsule is more than a century older than a 113-year-old one discovered inside a lion atop Boston’s Old State House last year. That capsule included materials from the presidential campaigns of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
此膠囊較去年在波士頓舊議會大廈上頭的獅子雕像中發現的113歲膠囊，老了超過1世紀。那個膠囊裡有包括威廉．麥金利與西奧多．羅斯福的總統競選文宣。
新聞辭典
capsule：名詞，小容器、膠囊。例句：I took an antibiotic capsule three times a day.（我一天服用三次抗生素膠囊。）
artifact：名詞，人工製品、手工藝品。例句：artifacts from the Colonial period.（殖民時期的手工藝品。）
corrode：動詞，侵蝕、損害。例句：Rainwater will corrode the steel containers.（雨水會鏽蝕鋼鐵製容器。）
