人教版英语选修9《Unit 2 Sailing the oceans》课件1.pptVIP

Once we were at sea, our routine every day was the same. At sunrise and sunset the captain measured our position using the quadrant and set the course using the compass. It was extremely difficult for us to get a correct reading from the quadrant as the boat moved constantly. The captain used a system called dead reckoning. He knew there was land directly northwest of our original position. So his task was to make sure we stayed on that course. As you can see from the map we kept to a straight course pretty well. In addition, the captain kept us all busy reading the tables to work out our position. Although this took a great deal of time, it didnt matter. Time was, after all, what we had a lot of! Our daily food was shared equally among us all: one piece of bread and one cup of water. It was starvation quantities but the extreme lack of water was the hardest to cope with psychologically. Imagine all that water around you, but none of it was safe to drink because the salt in it would drive you mad! All the time the captain tried to preserve our good spirits by telling stories and talking hopefully about what we would do when we got back to England. We only half believed him. cope with 应付(难题、工作、关系)；处理(问题、数据) e. g. Its a tough job but Im sure hell cope. She feared she wouldnt be able to cope with two new babies. Local authorities have to cope with the problems of homelessness. People who cope successfully with difficult situations usually look ahead and anticipate the circumstances. No system is designed to cope with the floods we have had this year. My computer can cope with huge amounts of data. The tension in the boat got worse as the supply of food and water gradually disappeared. We could foresee that we would die if we could not reach land very soon and we sank gradually into a sleepy, half-alive state. The captain was as weak as the rest of us, but he was determined not to give up. He continued his n