oldest message in bottle最古老的瓶中信.docx

Oldest Message in Bottle: Behind Historys Famous Floating Notes最古老的瓶中信：历史上著名的漂流瓶背后的故事New find recalls amazing paths of drifting documents since ancient times.新发现使人回忆起从古至今那些漂流文件的“神奇之旅”。Found in a bottle set adrift 98 years ago, this document was part of an ocean-current study.这份文件发现于98年前投放的漂流瓶之中，是洋流研究的一个组成部分。Jeremy BerlinNational Geographic NewsPublished September 18, 2012作者：Jeremy Berlin国家地理新闻发布时间：2012年9月18日Photograph courtesy Marine Scotland感谢苏格兰海洋组织友情提供照片Ensconced in a plain glass bottle, the scrap of paper drifted in the North Sea for 98 years. But when a Scottish skipper pulled it from his nets near the Shetland Islands last April, he didnt find a lovelorn note or marooned sailors SOS.这一张装在玻璃片中的纸片，在北海中已经飘荡了98年。但当去年四月一名苏格兰船长在设德兰群岛附近从渔网中取下它的时候，他并没有看到一名失恋者的留言，抑或是困境中水手的求援。Please state where and when this card was found, and then put it in the nearest Post Office, read the message. You will be informed in reply where and when it was set adrift. Our object is to find out the direction of the deep currents of the North Sea.Sorry, romantics.The message in a bottle found by Andrew Leaper—certified by Guinness World Records on August 30 as the oldest ever recovered—belonged to a century-old science experiment.这张纸条上这样写道：“请写上你发现这张卡片的时间和地点，然后将它投递到离你最近的邮局。你会被回复告知漂流瓶是何时何地被投放的。我们的目的是为了研究北海深海洋流的运动方向。”不好意思，这真的一点儿也不浪漫。Andrew Leaper发现的这个漂流瓶，在8月30日由吉尼斯世界纪录确定为世界上最古老的漂流瓶，而它属于一项百年之前的科学实验。To study local ocean currents, Capt. C. Hunter Brown of the Glasgow School of Navigation set bottle number 646B adrift, along with 1,889 others, on June 10, 1914.Drift bottles gave oceanographers at the start of the last century important information that allowed them to create pictures of the patterns of water circulation in the seas around Scotland, Marine Scotland Sciences Bill Turrell explained in a statement.Turrells Aberdeen-based government agency still keeps and updates Captain Browns log. According to Turrell, Leapers discovery—plucked just 9 miles (15 kilometers) from where Brown released it—