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Nearly 2,000 years ago, as the Romans began to pull out of Scotland, they left behind a curious treasure: 10 tons of nails, nearly a million of the things.
大约2000年前，罗马人开始撤出苏格兰时，留下了一批奇特的宝藏：10吨钉子，将近一百万枚。
The nail hoard was discovered in 1960 in a four-metre-deep pit covered by two metres of gravel.
这批钉子于1960年在一个四米深的坑中被发现，坑上覆盖着两米厚的碎石。
Why had the Romans buried a million nails?
罗马人为什么要埋下一百万枚钉子呢？
The Romans buried the nails so deep that they would not be discovered for almost two millennia.
罗马人把钉子埋得很深，以至于近两千年都未被发现。
Later civilisations would value the skilled blacksmith’s labour in a nail even more than the raw material.
后来的文明对一枚钉子中熟练铁匠所付出劳动的重视，甚至超过了对原材料的重视。
This was an attempt to recover the valuable nails, which could be reused after sifting the ashes.
这是为了回收宝贵的钉子，这些钉子从灰烬中筛出后可以再次使用。
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The idea that one might burn down an entire house just to reclaim the nails underlines how scarce, costly and valuable the simple-seeming technology was.
人们会为了回收钉子而烧掉整座房子，这一做法凸显了这项看似简单的技术在当时是多么稀缺、昂贵和宝贵。
The price of nails fell by 90% between the late 1700s and mid-1900s, as economist Daniel Sichel points out in a research paper.
正如经济学家丹尼尔·西切尔在一篇研究论文中指出的，从18世纪末到20世纪中叶，钉子的价格下降了90%。
According to Sichel, although the falling price of nails was driven partly by cheaper iron and cheaper energy, most of the credit goes to nail manufacturers who simply found more efficient ways to turn steel into nails.
西切尔认为，尽管钉子价格下降部分源于铁和能源变得更便宜，但主要功劳应归于钉子制造商，他们找到了把钢铁制成钉子的更高效方法。
According to Sichel, although the falling price of nails was driven partly by cheaper iron and cheaper energy, most of the credit goes to nail manufacturers who simply found more efficient ways to turn steel into nails.
西切尔认为，尽管钉子价格下降部分源于铁和能源变得更便宜，但主要功劳应归于钉子制造商，他们找到了把钢铁制成钉子的更高效方法。
According to Sichel, although the falling price of nails was driven partly by cheaper iron and cheaper energy, most of the credit goes to nail manufacturers who simply found more efficient ways to turn steel into nails.
西切尔认为，尽管钉子价格下降部分源于铁和能源变得更便宜，但主要功劳应归于钉子制造商，他们找到了把钢铁制成钉子的更高效方法。
Nails themselves have changed over the years, but Sichel studied them because they haven’t changed much.
钉子本身多年来有所变化，但西切尔研究它们恰恰是因为它们变化不大。
Roman lamps and Roman chariots are very different from LED strips and sports cars, but Roman nails are still clearly nails.
罗马的灯和战车与LED灯带和跑车截然不同，但罗马的钉子显然仍是钉子。
Roman lamps and Roman chariots are very different from LED strips and sports cars, but Roman nails are still clearly nails.
罗马的灯和战车与LED灯带和跑车截然不同，但罗马的钉子显然仍是钉子。
It would be absurd to try to track the changing price of sports cars since 1695, but to ask the same question of nails makes perfect sense.
试图追踪自1695年以来跑车价格的变化是荒谬的，但对钉子提出同样的问题却完全合理。
The Romans buried the nails probably for the sake of ____
罗马人埋藏钉子可能是为了____
contrast the attitudes of different civilisations towards nails.
对比不同文明对钉子的态度。
show the preciousness of nail-making technology at that time.
表明当时制钉技术的珍贵。
What played the major role in lowering the price of nails after the late 1700s?
18世纪末以后，什么在降低钉子价格方面起了主要作用？
It can be learned from Paragraph 5 that nails ____
从第5段可以得知，钉子____