A county in southwestern England used to be king when it came to tin and a walk among the ruins of Cornwall's tin mines could take you back in time or back to the future.

英格兰西南部的一个郡曾经是锡矿的国王，在康沃尔锡矿废墟中漫步可以带你回到过去或者回到未来。

If only we had some coal, or gravel, or tin.

要是我们有煤矿或采场或锡矿就好了。

As well as its farms and fishing, Cornwall was famous for tin mines, as Ruth Huxley of the Cornish Pasty Association explains.

如康沃尔馅饼协会解释的那样，除了业和渔业之外，康沃尔还以锡矿出名。

First you need to mine and smelt the ores that contain both copper and tin, in order to make the bronze itself.

先要将铜矿与锡矿以制作青铜，再将青铜液倒进模具铸造。

Pasties were eaten by agricultural labourers-farm workers bringing in the autumn harvest-the time when crops are cut and collected from the fields, and also by workers in the tin mining industry-digging up metals like tin from underground.

馅饼业劳工食用——进行秋的场工人——秋指的是庄稼从地里的时候，馅饼还锡矿产业——从地下挖锡这种金属——的工人食用。

The history and process of tin mining are complicated and involve a lot of special words.

锡矿开采的历史和过程是复杂的，涉及到许多特殊的词语。

Today much of the worlds tin mining takes place in Asia and South America but it wasn't always that way.

今天，世界上大部分的锡矿都发生在亚洲和南美洲，但以前不是这样的。

Silver mines, gold mines, tin mines.

银矿、金矿、锡矿。

DOS SANTOS: South Crofty could become one of the only tin mines in Europe and North America giving technology companies an opportunity to clean up supply chains.

South Crofty 可能成为欧洲和北美仅有的几个锡矿之一，为科技公司提供了清理供应链的机会。

Mark Will's family have been tin miners for four generations.

Mark Will的家族四代都是锡矿工。

In the 19th century, many Cornish tin miners emigrated, moving abroad to start a better life.

19世纪，一些康沃尔锡矿工人移居国外去开始更好的生活。

Well, that's connected to the tin miners we just talked about.

好吧，那和我们刚才谈到的锡矿工人有关。

The sand and water is run over mats that trap the tin ore.

沙子和水流过捕获锡矿的垫子。

His father Charlie King went there to mine tin in the early 20th century.

他的父亲查理·金在20世纪初前往那里开采锡矿。

This is living history, South Crofty opened in 1592 and it was the last Cornish tin mine to close in 1998. When the mine closed, the tin price was around $4,000 to $5,000 a ton.

这是活生生的历史，南克罗夫蒂 (South Crofty) 于 1592 年开业，是康沃尔郡最后一个锡矿，于 1998 年关闭。该矿关闭时，锡价约为每吨 4,000 至 5,000 美元。

The initial discoveries were these rather remarkable terracottas, which are associated with this archaeological entity, and they were first discovered in 1928 during opencast tin mining on the Joss Plateau.

最初的发现是这些相当引人注目的陶土雕像，它们与这一考古实体有关，最早于1928年在乔斯高原的露天锡矿开采中发现。

In waste and uninclosed lands, any person who discovers a tin mine may mark out its limits to a certain extent, which is called bounding a mine.

在荒野荒野中，凡是发现锡矿的人，都可以在一定程度上划出界限，称为界矿。

The iconic smokestacks today are the dramatic remnants of Cornwall's now-dead tin-mining industry, which just couldn't compete with cheap tin from abroad.

今天， 那些标志性的烟囱是康沃尔现已衰败的锡矿产业戏剧性的遗存，这个产业根本无法与国外廉价的锡矿竞争。

As they dug for gold, copper or tin, the structures would often crack and collapse, crushing all who were inside.

当他们挖掘金矿、铜矿或锡矿时，矿井结构经常会裂开并坍塌，将里面的所有人都压垮。

Vespasian was sent south-west to  secure control of the tin and silver mines in Cornwall and Somerset.

维斯帕芗派往西南地区，以确保对康沃尔郡和萨默塞特郡锡矿和银矿的控制。