【读新闻学英语】墙壁里挖出1000多颗牙齿 简直令人毛骨悚然

Workers doing demolition work on a building in Georgia, US, knocked down a wall only to have thousands of human teeth fall on them.
当工人们正在美国佐治亚州的一幢建筑楼上进行拆除作业时，他们推倒一面墙后发现数千颗人类牙齿落在自己身上。
Demolition：拆毁；破坏
Knock down：拆除；撞倒

The Valdosta Daily Times reported on the creepy find, saying the workers broke open the wall and at least 1000 human teeth came out.
《瓦尔多斯塔每日时报》报道了这次令人毛骨悚然的发现，报道称工人们敲开了墙壁，发现至少有1000颗人类牙齿。
Creepy：令人毛骨悚然的; 令人不寒而栗的

The building, it turns out, was home to a dentistry office in the early 1900s, although that does not fully explain the discovery.
事实证明，这座建筑是20世纪初期一个牙医办公室的所在地，尽管这不足以解释这一发现（墙里有牙齿）的原因。
Turn out：结果是
Dentistry：牙医学

The wall was located on the second floor of the building.
这堵墙位于该建筑二楼。

A drug store located on the first floor of the building in the early 1900s also provided tooth extraction services.
在20世纪初，位于该建筑内一楼的药店也提供拔牙服务。
Drug store：药店
Tooth extraction：拔牙

Officials are now trying to figure out why the hundreds of human teeth ended up inside the building wall.
官员们现在在试图弄清楚为什么数百颗人类牙齿最终会出现在建筑物墙体内。
Figure out：弄明白；解决
End up：最后处于

A photo of the pile of teeth posted to Facebook later went viral, as people could not believe the true tale had happened.
后来，一张有一堆牙齿的照片被发布到Facebook上，并如病毒般迅速传播，因为人们无法相信这是个真实发生的故事。
A pile of：一堆
Go viral：如病毒般迅速传播

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