美国小学英语教材6:第70课 洋基快速船(9)（在线收听） |
The days passed while the men grew weaker and more sluggish at their work, but still the breeze held and the speed of the West Wind did not falter. 日子一天天过去，工人们越来越虚弱，工作越来越懒，但海上一直刮着风，“西风号”的速度丝毫没有减弱。 They passed no ship from which they could obtain water; their only hope lay in the making of port. 他们没有碰上任何可以获得水源的船，他们唯一的希望在于建造港口。
They turned northward, lost the trade winds, seemed for a terrible moment to be hanging becalmed, 他们把船转向北方后失去了信风，似乎可怕的时刻就要到来了，他们会悬在无风的海面上，
but a stiff breeze caught them and bore them still toward home. 但一阵强风把他们吹向了家。
Captain Reynolds himself looked more worn and haggard than did any of his men. 雷诺船长本人比他的部下显得更加疲惫和憔悴。
They were like the flitting ghosts of a ship's crew that morning when the lookout's husky call of Land-ho announced the low green shore of Maryland. 那天早晨，当守望员嘶哑的喊出“Land-ho”，宣布他们到达了马里兰州的低绿海岸时，他们就像船员们漂浮的幽灵一样。
Eighteen days from Gibraltar and all records broken at last! She came into the Susquehanna River for repairs, 从直布罗陀到这里，整整十八天，所有记录终于被打破了！人们把她送到萨斯奎哈纳河修理。
did the worn but triumphant West Wind, and Jonathan Adams came rowing out to board her, his sober face for once all wreathed in smiles. 西风号很疲惫，但还是获得了胜利，乔纳森·亚当斯划着船过来，登上自己的船，他那严肃的脸上第一次露出了笑容。
By five days you shortened the voyage, he said, and I had not really hoped for more than four. 你们把航程缩短了五天，他说，我本来期望的是最多缩短四天。
I always said she was not a tub, but a real ship at last. There will be others like her, 我总是说她不是一只浴盆，而是一艘真正的船。将来还会有像她一样的船，
and her children's children will dare to spread such sail that they will cross the Atlantic in half your time. 她孩子们的孩子们也会勇敢地展开这样的风帆，用你一半的时间，
Jonathan Adams' ship the West Wind sailed on many voyages and was the model for other vessels of her class, 他们就能横渡大西洋。乔纳森·亚当斯的船“西风号”进行了多次航行，她是她的同级别的船只的楷模，
bigger and swifter even than herself—the great race of American clippers that once ruled the seas. 是比她还要大、还要快的船只的楷模，是曾经统治海洋的伟大的美国快船队的楷模。
They gave our country the highest place in the world's shipping, and they brought her, 他们让我们的国家处于世界上最高的航运地位，
even as Humphrey had said, a thousand miles nearer to her neighbors across the Atlantic. 正如汉弗莱所说，他们把她带到了大西洋对岸，离邻国更近了一千英里。
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