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HOW CANDY MINTS ARE MADE
如何生产薄荷糖
Milton Wright
作者：米尔登·赖特
Do you know that when you open a package of candy mints, your hands are the first that have ever touched them? You say, “Somebody must have made them.” But you are wrong. Fingers and hands and arms of iron and steel and leather did the work, as this story will tell you.
你知道吗？当你打开一包薄荷糖的时候，你的手是第一个接触到它们的人。你会说，“肯定有人生产。”但你错了。就像这个故事告诉你的那样，铁、钢和皮革制成的手指、手和手臂起了作用。
To learn how candy mints are made, we journeyed to the biggest factory of the kind in the country. The materials they contain are sugar and mint flavor—nothing else. Granulated sugar, received in barrels, is emptied into a conveyor near the receiving platform on the first floor. A continuous bucket elevator carries it to the roof, where it is stored in hoppers until used. Up to the roof of the building go the raw materials. Down, down they come, rolling, sliding, tumbling, falling, passing through this piece of machinery and that, until they come out on the second floor, wrapped and in cartons ready for delivery. In all the work no hands have touched them.
为了了解糖果薄荷糖是如何制造的，我们去了全国最大的糖果工厂。它们所含的原料是糖和薄荷味的——没有别的了。砂糖装在桶里，被倒入一楼接收台附近的传送带里。一个连续的斗式升降机将它运到屋顶，在那里它被储存在料斗中直到使用。原材料一直堆到屋顶。滑、滚、下降、穿过这片机器，直到他们出来在二楼，包装和纸箱准备交货。在所有的工作中，没有人碰过糖果们。
