[00:00.03]Rescue efforts were underway Thursday morning#
周四上午，救援工作正在进行当中。#
[00:03.02]for 17 miners who were stuck in an elevator below ground at a Cargill rock salt mine near Lansing, New York,#
在纽约州兰辛附近的嘉吉岩盐矿中，有17名矿工被困在了地下电梯。#
[00:10.92]according to Marcia Lynch, Public information officer with Tompkins County’s Emergency Response Department.#
这是汤普金斯县紧急情况部门一位名叫玛西亚·林奇的公共信息官员透露的。#
[00:18.18]Emergency workers have made contact with the miners via a radio, and they all appear to be uninjured,#
急救援人员已经通过无线电与矿工取得了联系，应该没有人员受伤。#
[00:25.50]said Jessica Verfuss, the emergency department’s assistant director.#
据该急救部门的助理局长杰西卡·韦弗斯表示。#
[00:30.06]Crews have managed to provide heat packs and blankets to the miners#
弗斯称，救援人员已经想办法为受困矿工提供了保暖带和毛毯，#
[00:35.04]so that they can keep warm during the rescue operation, Verfuss said.#
好让矿工可以在救援期间保持温暖。#
[00:39.74]Details about what led to the workers’being trapped in the elevator weren’t immediately available.#
而导致矿工困在地下电梯的细节并未即时给出。#
[00:46.16]The mine, along New York’s Cayuga Lake, processes salt used for road treatment.#
在纽约卡尤加湖附近的这座盐矿，是为道路处理所需的盐进行加工的。#
[00:52.63]It produces about 2 million tons of salt that is shipped to more than 1500 places in the northeastern United States.#
其产出的200万吨盐会运往美国东北部1500余个地区。#
[01:01.71]The rock salt mine is one of three operated by Cargill with the other two in Louisiana and Ohio.#
该岩盐矿是嘉吉公司开采的三个岩盐矿中的一个，另外两个则位于路易斯安那州及俄亥俄州。#
[01:09.37]Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.#
请根据你刚刚听到的新闻报道回答问题3和问题4。#
[01:16.25]Question 3 What does the news report say about the salt miners?#
问题3 关于这些盐矿工，这则新闻报道描述了什么？#
[01:34.41]Question 4 What did the rescue team do?#
问题4 救援队做了什么？
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