Smith allegedly translated these plates into English as the Book of Mormon—so called after an ancient American prophet who, according to Smith, had compiled the text recorded on the plates.

据称，史密斯将刻板上的文字翻译成英语，这便是《摩门经》。 所谓摩门，据史密斯讲是一位古代美洲先知的名字，黄金字板上的文字正是此人所做。

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Over his career, his 35 broken bones made the Guinness Book of Records; his body rattled with pins and plates, and it seemed preposterous that he should have died in his bed, of pulmonary fibrosis.

在克尼维尔的飞车生涯中，他最终能登上吉尼斯记录是用他35根断骨换来的；他的身上布满了嘎嘎作响的别针与金属板，而且有人说他本该因肺部纤维症而死在自己的床上，这听起来实在荒谬。

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He said there was a book deposited, written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they sprang.

他说，一本书，写板金牌后，使一个帐户前居民的这个大陆，以及从何处来源，他们兴起。

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The plates contained the Book of Mormon, the secret history of a native people of America, who turned out to be lost tribes of Israel.

NEWYORKER: I, Nephi

With over 600 pages of good-quality paper, his is a massive three-decked battleship of a book, in general handsomely produced, but let down by some poorly designed colour plates, including a number of reversed images.

ECONOMIST: British naval history