2 Vesuvius comes alive

CHAPTER II Vesuvius comes alive August 24 AD79 The morning started furiously hot- even hotter than a normal August day- but Pompeii's market traders wasted no time setting up their stalls in the Forum. No one spared a glance for the Temple of the Capitoline Triad. Repaired by stonemasons months ago, most people had forgotten it had ever been damaged.

二维苏威火山爆发公元79年8月24日早晨开始非常热——甚至比平常八月的一天还要热——但庞贝的市场商人们却不失时间地在广场摆起了摊位。 没有人会瞥一眼卡比托利欧神庙。 几个月前由石匠修复，大多数人已经忘记了它曾经被损坏过。

From under the shade of a leafy plane tree, a few curious citizens looked on as a wealthy lady paraded through the square in the comfort of her carrying chair, with her slaves in attendance.

在一棵枝繁叶繁茂的梧桐树的树荫下，几个好奇的市民看着一位富有的女士在她的奴隶们的陪同下，舒适地坐在搬运椅上游行穿过广场。

She gazed at the traders busy preparing for a day of good business, as they laid out their wares under the watchful eye of a statue of Mercury, the god of commerce.

她凝视着商人们忙着为一天的好生意做准备，他们在商业之神墨丘利雕像的注视下摆出商品。

A shoemaker put out his tools and wine merchants lined up their flagons. Fabric, pottery, wool, bread, honey- thanks to the ships that came to the nearby port of Puteoli, everything was on sale here, as long as the browsers had a few coins in their pockets.

鞋匠拿出了他的工具，酒商把酒壶摆成一排。 布料、陶器、羊毛、面包、蜂蜜——多亏了来到附近的普特奥利港的船只，只要游客口袋里有几个硬币，这里的一切都在出售。

No one noticed that the Sun was looking unusually hazy in the sky. By ten o'clock, the market was in full swing. Traders called out their wares, slaves wandered from stall to stall, buying everything on the day's shopping list.

没有人注意到太阳在天空中显得异常朦胧。 到十点钟的时候，市场正如火如荼地进行。 商人们叫卖他们的商品，奴隶们从一个摊位逛到另一个摊位，购买当天购物清单上的所有东西。

In a corner, an old man with a stoop was busily adding his own graffiti to Pompeii's local notice board- a city wall. With no telephones or postal service, this was the way most people in Pompeii left messages for each other. But this man wasn't happy with what he saw on the wall and he decided to say so: Oh, wall! I can't believe you haven't fallen down under the weight of all these boring messages!

在一个角落里，一位弯腰驼背的老人正忙着在庞贝当地的公告牌上涂鸦——一块城墙。 由于没有电话和邮政服务，这是庞贝大多数人互相留言的方式。 但是这个人对他在墙上看到的东西不满意，他决定这样说：哦，墙！我真不敢相信你还没有被这些无聊的信息压垮！