英语翻译
iceland is one of the most active volcanic regions of the world.and it was to iceland that Jules Verns sent the hero of his book A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.This interpid reached the earth's core.There he found great oceans,and continents with vegetation.this conecption of a hollow earth we now know to be false .In the 100 years since Jules Verne published his book,the science of vulcanology ,as it is called,has made great strides.but even so the deepest man has yet penetrated is about 10,000 feet.this hole,the Robinson Deep mine it not for an elaborate air-condlitioning system,the miners working there would be roasted.oil borings down to 20,000 feet have shown that the deeper they go,the hotter it becomes.