雅思A类小作文：砖头的制造流程

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The diagram below shows the process by which bricks are manufactured for the building industry.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

The process by which bricks are manufactured for the building industry can be outlined in seven consecutive steps.

为建筑工业*砖块的过程可以用连续七个步骤来描述。

First the raw material, clay, which was just below the surface of soil in certain clay-rich areas has to be dug up by a digger.

首先，在某些粘土丰富的地区，土壤表层下的原材料粘土必须由挖掘机挖掘出来。

Then the lumps of clay are placed on a metal grid in order to break up the big chunks of clay into much *aller areas, which fall through the metal grid onto a roller, whose motion further segregates the bits of clay. Sand and water are added to make a homogenous mixture, which is then either formed in moulds or cut into brick-shaped pieces by means of a wire cutter.

然后把粘土块放在一个金属网格上，以便把大块粘土分解成更小的区域，这些区域通过金属网格落到一个滚轮上，滚轮的运动进一步分离了粘土块。沙子和水被加在一起形成均匀的混合物，然后在模具中形成，或者用钢丝刀切成砖状。

Those fresh bricks are then kept in a drying oven for at least 24 and a maximum of 48 hours, several dozen if not hundreds of bricks at a time. The dried bricks are then transferred to a so-called kiln, another type of high temperature oven. First they are kept at a moderate temperature of 200C – 1300C. This process is followed by cooling down the finished bricks for 48 to 72 hours in a cooling chamber.

这些新鲜的砖块被放在干燥的烤箱中至少24小时，最多48小时，一次可以存放几十块甚至上百块砖块。然后这些干砖被转移到所谓的窑，另一种高温烤箱。首先，它们被保持在200C – 1300C的中等温度。在此过程中，将成品砖在冷却室内冷却48至72小时。

Once the bricks have cooled down and have become hard, they get packaged and delivered to their final destination, be it a building site or storage.

一旦砖块冷却下来变得坚硬，它们就会被打包并运送到最终目的地，无论是建筑工地还是仓库。

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