密歇根新闻广播 五大湖海难的保存

More than three centuries of thriving marine¹ commerce and those notorious storms in the Great Lakes have given Michigan a wealth of historic shipwrecks². There are nearly a thousand on the bottomlands of the state's 13 designated underwater preserves alone. But Michigan's mostly volunteer system of protecting the shipwrecks is showing signs of trouble.

Here's a scenario⁴ that makes underwater preserve expert Ron Bloomfield wince⁵. A diver comes to Michigan specifically to explore a wreck³ in remote Lake Superior. He knows the lake's cold, clear waters have left the wooden ship in pristine⁶ condition. He charters a boat to take him out...

"And he gets to the spot and can't find a buoy⁷. That's a really bad thing to have happen, because then likely he's going to throw an anchor over the side and they're going to hook into the wreck and that can just cause all kinds of damage," he says.

This kind of thing is happening too often now, says Bloomfield. He's a past president of the non-profit Michigan Underwater Preserve Council. Managing the preserves is officially the job of the state Department of Natural Resources. But he says they don't have enough money to assign enough staff to the preserves.

So most of the work falls on volunteers. Unfortunately, the corps⁸ of volunteers assigned to the preserves is shrinking. Younger folks aren't moving in to replace volunteers who've gotten too old to do the work, and there's no state funding to reimburse⁹ volunteers for gasoline, buoys¹⁰, and other equipment.

"There are people who have got out of it because they were having to put too much of their own money out of pocket," he says.

But Bloomfield says interest in exploring shipwrecks is only increasing, especially among kayakers. He says the state should consider reimbursing¹¹ volunteers for their time and expenses, and boosting the budget of the Department of Natural Resources for underwater preserve management.

1 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

2 shipwrecks   

海难，船只失事( shipwreck的名词复数 )； 沉船

参考例句：

• Shipwrecks are apropos of nothing. 船只失事总是来得出人意料。
• There are many shipwrecks in these waters. 在这些海域多海难事件。

3 wreck   

n.失事，遇难；沉船；vt.(船等)失事，遇难

参考例句：

• Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
• No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。

4 scenario   

n.剧本，脚本；概要

参考例句：

• But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
• This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。

5 wince   

n.畏缩，退避，（因痛苦，苦恼等)面部肌肉抽动；v.畏缩，退缩，退避

参考例句：

• The barb of his wit made us wince.他那锋芒毕露的机智使我们退避三舍。
• His smile soon modified to a wince.他的微笑很快就成了脸部肌肉的抽搐。

6 pristine   

adj.原来的，古时的，原始的，纯净的，无垢的

参考例句：

• He wiped his fingers on his pristine handkerchief.他用他那块洁净的手帕擦手指。
• He wasn't about to blemish that pristine record.他本不想去玷污那清白的过去。

7 buoy   

n.浮标；救生圈；v.支持，鼓励

参考例句：

• The party did little to buoy up her spirits.这次聚会并没有让她振作多少。
• The buoy floated back and forth in the shallow water.这个浮标在浅水里漂来漂去。

8 corps   

n.(通信等兵种的)部队；(同类作的)一组

参考例句：

• The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

9 reimburse   

v.补偿，付还

参考例句：

• We'll reimburse you for your travelling expenses.我们将付还你旅费。
• The funds are supposed to reimburse policyholders in the event of insurer failure.这项基金将在保险公司不能偿付的情况下对投保人进行赔付。

10 buoys   

n.浮标( buoy的名词复数 )；航标；救生圈；救生衣v.使浮起( buoy的第三人称单数 )；支持；为…设浮标；振奋…的精神

参考例句：

• The channel is marked by buoys. 航道有浮标表示。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Often they mark the path with buoys. 他们常常用浮标作为航道的标志。 来自辞典例句

11 reimbursing   

v.偿还，付还( reimburse的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• All banking charges outside Korea and reimbursing are for account of beneficiary. 所有韩国以外的用度及偿付行用度由受益人承担。 来自互联网
• A reimbursing bank's charges are for the account of the issuing bank. 然而，如果费用系由受益人承担，则开证行有责任在信用证和偿付授权书中予以注明。 来自互联网