海底两万里第一课.docx

Previous Story挣脱人类社会的束缚，潜入神秘海洋的深处，是否就能获得真正的自由？?查看本章讲义Chapter 1It was in July that people started talking about the monster(怪物).At first the talk was like a whisper(小道消息).“There’s a monster(怪物)—in the sea. They say it can attackattack [?t?k]基本翻译vi. 攻击；腐蚀vt. 攻击；抨击；动手干n. 攻击；抨击；疾病发作even our biggest ships.”“It’s enormous(巨大的), and it moves really fast.”“It’s bigger than the biggest whale(鲸)?you can ever imagine.”But soon more people got to hearget to do 开始做…about this mysterious monster(怪物).And the voices got louder and louder.It didn’t take long for「It didnt take long for...to do...」表示“对…来说做…不需要花太久”句型「it takes A to do B」表示“做B需要A”the whisper(小道消息)?to become a screamscream [skri?m]基本翻译n. 尖叫声；尖锐刺耳的声音；极其滑稽可笑的人vt. 尖声喊叫；大叫大嚷着要求vi. 尖叫；呼啸；发出尖锐刺耳的声音；令人触目惊心(广为人知的事).People talked about the monster(怪物)?in bars(酒吧), at their place of work, and they read about it in the newspaper.News about the monster(怪物)?was on everybody’s lipson everyones lips 大家都在议论…(大家都在谈论的).And then the science became interested in this mystery(神秘的事物)?too.As a scientist who has spent most of his life studying the creatures(生物)?of the sea, I was「be fascinated by」表示“被…所吸引，为…着迷fascinated(被吸引住的)?fascinated [f?s?ne?t?d]基本翻译v. 使着迷；使陶醉（fascinate的过去分词）adj. 着迷的；被深深吸引的by the appearancethe appearance基本翻译表象、外观of「the appearance of」表示“…的出现”this strange creature(生物).Was it a monster(怪物)? Or could there be a more natural explanation?The talk continued, and got louder and louder for the rest for the rest基本翻译至于其他of the year.Reports were coming in constantlyconstantly [k?nst(?)ntl?]基本翻译adv. 不断地；时常地.One day I heard that a Canadian ship had crashed(碰撞，撞击)?intocrash into …撞到…it.At first the crew(全体船员)?thought it was a rock.But there was no rock on the map, and they were passing through a stretch(一片)?of watera stretch of water 一片水域they knew well.It had to be the monster(怪物).Three weeks later, passengers on a ship called the Scotia were having breakfast, when they heard a loud crash(碰撞声，撞击声).Voices could be heard from below.“We’re s