"为了结束我们今天的特别新闻简报,"电视播音员的声音说道,"我们即将转到卡拉布里亚的通心粉田。"
'To end our special news bulletin,' said the voice of the television announcer, 'we're going over to the macaroni fields of Calabria.
六百多年来,这一地区一直种植通心粉。
Macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years.
两位主要种植者朱塞佩·摩尔多瓦和里卡多·布拉班特告诉我,他们今年一直期待大丰收,而且收割比往年开始得更早。
Two of the leading growers Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante, tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual.
在这里您可以看到两名工人,他们两人合计刚刚割完了三车金棕色的通心粉秆。
Here you can see two workers who, between them, have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brown macaroni stalks.
全村人日夜不停地收割和脱粒今年的庄稼,以赶在九月雨季到来之前完成。
The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year's crop before the September rains.
在右边,您可以看到布拉班特夫人本人。
On the right, you can see Mrs. Brabante herself.
她协助丈夫已经三十年了。
She has been helping her husband for thirty years now.
布拉班特夫人正在与当地工厂的厂长交谈,庄稼就在那里加工处理。
Mrs. Brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed.
最后这个画面向您展示了丰收结束时将要发生什么:著名的卡拉布里亚通心粉吃面大赛!
This last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest: the famous Calabrian macaroni-eating competition!
弗拉泰利先生,现任冠军,自 1991 年以来每年都赢得了这个冠军。
Signor Fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1991.
今天的特别简报就到此结束,今天是星期四,4 月 1 日。
And that ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April 1st.
我们现在要回到演播室了。"
We're now going back to the studio.'