考研英語閱讀篇章南非最貴藍鉆
篇章：南非最貴藍鉆 價值6億人民幣
Petra Diamonds announced its discovery of what may very well be the largest blue diamond to ever be unearthed at the Cullinan mine in South Africa.
佩特拉鉆石公司近日宣布，他們在南非庫利南鉆石礦發現了一顆很有可能是迄今為止最大的藍鉆石。
It is the size of a strawberry and weighs a bit less than three pound coins.
它和一顆草莓差不多大，比3枚一英鎊硬幣略輕。
But if you had this rare blue beauty in your pocket you would be carrying around a diamond that could be worth more than 60million.
要是你能將這顆藍色尤物裝進自己的口袋，那你等于隨身帶了一顆價值超過6千萬英鎊的鉆石。
Anyone who buys it, however, will be hoping for better luck than the owners of the famous deep blue Hope Diamond. It supposedly puts a curse on those who possess it, as the guillotined Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette discovered.
這顆鉆石的買家得祈禱自己擁有比著名的希望藍鉆的擁有者更好的運氣。希望藍鉆被認為會為擁有者帶來厄運，比如被送上斷頭臺的路易十六夫婦。
Blue diamonds get their colour from small amounts of the chemical element boron trapped in their crystal structure. The more blue it is, the greater the value. They are the rarest diamonds after red, which are almost never found.
藍鉆石的晶體結構中含有的化學元素硼是藍色的由來。藍色越深，鉆石的價值越高。藍鉆石是第二稀有的鉆石，僅次于極難被發現的紅鉆石。
The Cullinan mine is recognised as the most important diamond mine in the world. It is famous for producing the worlds largest white diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan Diamond, which was found in 1905.
庫利南鉆石礦被認為是世界上最重要的鉆石礦。它因1905年發現的世界最大的白鉆石3106克拉的庫利南鉆石而聲名遠播。
篇章：南非最貴藍鉆 價值6億人民幣
Petra Diamonds announced its discovery of what may very well be the largest blue diamond to ever be unearthed at the Cullinan mine in South Africa.
佩特拉鉆石公司近日宣布，他們在南非庫利南鉆石礦發現了一顆很有可能是迄今為止最大的藍鉆石。
It is the size of a strawberry and weighs a bit less than three pound coins.
它和一顆草莓差不多大，比3枚一英鎊硬幣略輕。
But if you had this rare blue beauty in your pocket you would be carrying around a diamond that could be worth more than 60million.
要是你能將這顆藍色尤物裝進自己的口袋，那你等于隨身帶了一顆價值超過6千萬英鎊的鉆石。
Anyone who buys it, however, will be hoping for better luck than the owners of the famous deep blue Hope Diamond. It supposedly puts a curse on those who possess it, as the guillotined Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette discovered.
這顆鉆石的買家得祈禱自己擁有比著名的希望藍鉆的擁有者更好的運氣。希望藍鉆被認為會為擁有者帶來厄運，比如被送上斷頭臺的路易十六夫婦。
Blue diamonds get their colour from small amounts of the chemical element boron trapped in their crystal structure. The more blue it is, the greater the value. They are the rarest diamonds after red, which are almost never found.
藍鉆石的晶體結構中含有的化學元素硼是藍色的由來。藍色越深，鉆石的價值越高。藍鉆石是第二稀有的鉆石，僅次于極難被發現的紅鉆石。
The Cullinan mine is recognised as the most important diamond mine in the world. It is famous for producing the worlds largest white diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan Diamond, which was found in 1905.
庫利南鉆石礦被認為是世界上最重要的鉆石礦。它因1905年發現的世界最大的白鉆石3106克拉的庫利南鉆石而聲名遠播。
