Miracles don’t happen every day. But one did this past week in our own Jiangsu Province, when a worker miraculously survived being splashed across the chest with molten aluminium at a temperature of no less than 660 degrees Celsius.
奇迹不会每天都发生。但上周我们江苏省就发生了这样的事，一名工人被温度不低于660摄氏度的熔融铝溅到胸部，奇迹般地生还。
The accident took place on 9 January, at a die casting factory the city of Nantong in Jiangsu. There, worker, Qin Yukuan, was carrying out his daily duties as normal when the blast of molten aluminium struck without warning.
事故发生于1月9日，地点为江苏南通市一家压铸厂。在那里，工人秦玉宽正在正常执行日常工作，突然铝水爆炸突然袭来。
Qin was rushed to hospital where doctors discovered the aluminium had solidified inside his chest.
秦被送往医院，医生发现铝已经在他的胸腔内凝固。
Under any other circumstances, such an incident would have without doubt been fatal. Yet, something was smiling down on Qin that fateful day.
在任何其他情况下，这样的事件无疑是致命的。然而，在那个决定命运的日子里，有什么东西正在向秦微笑。
After surgery, dozens of aluminum pieces of varying sizes had been one by one taken out of his heart, reported The Paper earlier today.
据澎湃新闻今天早些时候报道，手术后，数十块大小不等的铝片被从他的心脏中一一取出。
Some of the solid globules had come to within just one millimetre of Qin’s heart. Amazingly, the vital organ suffered no serious damage.
一些固体小球已经距离秦的心脏只有一毫米了。令人惊讶的是，重要器官没有受到严重损害。
Surveillance camera footage of the accident taking place, which can be seen via this link, may be distressing to some viewers.
通过此链接可以看到事故发生的监控录像，可能会让一些观众感到痛苦。
Qin can be seen being splashed with what appears at first sight to be a steam-like substance. All the while, a coworker who was facing away from the blast of aluminium, looks on as if mystified by why Qin is desperately removing the many layers of winter clothing on his upper body.
可以看到秦身上溅满了乍一看像是蒸汽状的物质。一直以来，一位背对铝爆炸的同事都在一旁看着，似乎很困惑秦为什么要拼命脱掉上半身的多层冬衣。
That Qin was able to do so and was not immediately knocked to the floor by the blast to face imminent death is nothing short of a miracle.
秦能够做到这一点，并且没有立即被爆炸击倒在地，面临死亡，这简直就是一个奇迹。
Aluminium Under High Pressure
高压下的铝
The manufacturing process that is aluminium die casting produces accurately defined, smooth and textured metal parts, with end uses in a variety of sectors, including aerospace, automotive and commercial transportation. To achieve such precision parts, the molten aluminium is forced into the mold under high pressure.
铝压铸制造工艺可生产出轮廓精确、光滑且有纹理的金属零件，最终用途包括航空航天、汽车和商业运输等多个领域。为了获得如此精密的零件，熔融铝在高压下被压入模具中。
The as-yet unexplained release of the aluminum under high pressure was the cause of last week’s near-fatal accident. Qin’s condition in hospital remains stable.
尚未解释的高压下铝的释放是上周近乎致命的事故的原因。秦先生在医院的情况稳定。
Accidents involving molten aluminium are thankfully relatively rare. That said, just last month, in Lancaster of Pennsylvania, USA, at least one person was taken to hospital after a molten aluminium explosion at the Arconic Mill Products facility in Manheim Township, reported LNP | LancasterOnline at the time.
值得庆幸的是，涉及熔融铝的事故相对较少。据《LNP》报道，就在上个月，美国宾夕法尼亚州兰卡斯特曼海姆镇的 Arconic Mill Products 工厂发生熔融铝爆炸，至少有一人被送往医院。兰卡斯特当时在线。
