美国国家公共电台 NPR--Lost since 1915, Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance is found off Antarctica

Lost since 1915, Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance is found off Antarctica

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The lost ship of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has been found — 106 years after the vessel² sank. The wooden ship Endurance is remarkably³ intact about 10,000 feet underwater off Antarctica.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

The descendant of an Antarctic explorer can now marvel⁴ at images of his ancestor's ship. Ernest Shackleton led three expeditions to the bottom of the Earth. One of them ended when his ship, the Endurance, was trapped in the ice and eventually sank.

LEILA FADEL, HOST:

This week, we've seen video of the shipwreck⁵, which was discovered in 10,000 feet of water. And the people watching include Charles Shackleton.

CHARLES SHACKLETON: And the goal was to do a complete crossing of the Antarctic.

FADEL: His famous ancestor was born in Ireland, back when it was fully⁶ part of the British Empire.

SHACKLETON: He was an entrepreneur, fundamentally. He tried politics. He tried starting a cigarette company - all kinds of different things. He was an incredibly charming guy, but he loved people most of all.

INSKEEP: He used his charisma⁷ to organize Antarctic expeditions. It was an age of exploration. And his mission, starting in 1914, was to cross the continent. When the ship instead became trapped in ice, it's said that he kept his crew motivated by his sheer force of personality.

FADEL: Shackleton and his crew drifted on an ice floe⁸, hoping it would blow them to safety. When that didn't work, they set off in the ship's lifeboats. And unlike the crews of other ill-fated polar expeditions, they survived. Now, images show their century-old wooden ship in surprisingly good shape on the ocean floor.

SHACKLETON: For me, it's like, whoa. This makes it very, very real. Everything is so well-preserved. I didn't think they'd find it. And I was following pretty closely, day to day, from the Endurance22 expedition.

FADEL: Undersea robots found the ship so well-preserved that its name is legible across the stern, just below the helm.

INSKEEP: The Endurance will remain where it came to rest. It is protected as an artifact under an international treaty. Undersea explorers in some future time may find it there again, where it's a symbol of the human ambition to see new things and also of the power of nature.

(SOUNDBITE OF JON HOPKINS' "LOST IN THOUGHT")

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 vessel   

n.船舶；容器，器皿；管，导管，血管

参考例句：

• The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
• You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。

3 remarkably   

ad.不同寻常地，相当地

参考例句：

• I thought she was remarkably restrained in the circumstances. 我认为她在那种情况下非常克制。
• He made a remarkably swift recovery. 他康复得相当快。

4 marvel   

vi.(at)惊叹vt.感到惊异；n.令人惊异的事

参考例句：

• The robot is a marvel of modern engineering.机器人是现代工程技术的奇迹。
• The operation was a marvel of medical skill.这次手术是医术上的一个奇迹。

5 shipwreck   

n.船舶失事，海难

参考例句：

• He walked away from the shipwreck.他船难中平安地脱险了。
• The shipwreck was a harrowing experience.那次船难是一个惨痛的经历。

6 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

7 charisma   

n.(大众爱戴的)领袖气质，魅力

参考例句：

• He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man.他有超凡的个人魅力，是个伟人。
• I don't have the charisma to pull a crowd this size.我没有那么大的魅力，能吸引这么多人。

8 floe   

n.大片浮冰

参考例句：

• Two penguins are standing on ice floe.两只企鹅站在一块浮冰上。
• Somehow the seal manages to reach a tiny ice floe.不知何故，海豹设法到达了一块小浮冰上。