新标准初中英语九年级(下):Mod12-3 Gulliver's travel

[00:02.80]5 Listen and read.
[00:07.00]Gulliver's Travels  Part 1
[00:11.71]On May 4th 1699,
[00:15.16]I left England for the South Seas
[00:18.18]on a ship that was called the 'Antelope¹'.
[00:21.94]For the first six months of our trip,
[00:24.54]everything went well
[00:26.82]but then the weather turned bad;
[00:28.96]there was a terrible storm
[00:30.93]that lasted several days.
[00:33.40]The ship was blown off course.
[00:36.47]We did not know where we were
[00:39.29]and the sailors³ became tired,hungry and sick.
[00:44.23]Twelve of them died.
[00:47.08]On November 5th,
[00:48.71]some of the sailors saw a rock sticking
[00:51.30]out of the sea.
[00:53.01]They tried to sail² away from the rock
[00:56.11]but the wind was so strong that the ship
[00:59.72]was blown onto it.
[01:01.65]The rock split⁴ the boat into two pieces.
[01:05.61]Everybody was thrown into the water
[01:08.74]and we all tried to get into the boats
[01:10.75]on the ship.
[01:12.63]Five sailors and I managed to get into
[01:15.89]a samll boat and we rowed away
[01:18.99]from the ship as quickly as we could.
[01:22.25]However, the strong wind and waves soon
[01:25.52]overturned boat.
[01:28.09]I didn't know what happened to the sailors
[01:31.08]but I swam for hours ans hours.
[01:34.50]I kept letting my legs drop to see
[01:37.03]if I could touch the bottom⁵ of the sea.
[01:40.06]After several hours,
[01:42.08]I could finally fell land beneath⁶ my feet.
[01:44.77]

1 antelope   

n.羚羊；羚羊皮

参考例句：

• Choosing the antelope shows that China wants a Green Olympics.选择藏羚羊表示中国需要绿色奥运。
• The tiger was dragging the antelope across the field.老虎拖着羚羊穿过原野。

2 sail   

n.帆，乘船航行；vt.乘船航行，浮游，启航；vi.驾船航行

参考例句：

• Ships can sail round the world.轮船能做环球航行。
• Ships can sail on the sea.轮船能在海上航行。

3 sailors   

n.水手，海员( sailor的名词复数 )；驾船人

参考例句：

• Sailors know how to wind up a long rope neatly. 水手们知道怎样把一条大绳利落地缠好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The shipwrecked sailors were picked up by a passing boat. 一艘过路的船只搭救了遭受船难的水手。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 split   

n.劈开，裂片，裂口；adj.分散的；v.分离，分开，劈开

参考例句：

• Who told you that Mary and I had split up?谁告诉你玛丽和我已经离婚了？
• The teacher split the class up into six groups.老师把班级分成6个小组。

5 bottom   

n.底部;屁股，臀部；adj.底部的

参考例句：

• The bottom of the cup is broken.这杯子的底破了。
• The channel must have a flat bottom.沟道的底要平。

6 beneath   

prep.在…下面；adv.在下面，在下方

参考例句：

• Let's have a rest beneath the tree.让我们在树下休息。
• What is beneath your feet?你们脚底下是什么？