Third Voyage格列佛游记.pptVIP

Third Voyage—Laputa Gulliver and his friends took the hopewell and intended a voyage to the East Indias. But unfortunately,they were chased by some pirates,and then,he was set a drift in a small canoe. After several days sail,he landed on a rocky island.He saw a flying island crowded with people and it covered the sunshine for a while.And then,it landed on the earth. Laputa Balnibarbi He set out to Balnibarbi and arrived at their capital city Lagado and was well-treated by a lord. He was permitted to see the grand academy of Lagado. He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers. From this scientist s first coming into the academy,was an operation to reproduce human excrement(粪便） to its original food. He saw another at work to calcine（煅烧） ice into gunpowder. Building houses by begining at the roof,and working downward to the foundation. . Mixing colours for painters,which their master taught them to distinguish by feeling and smelling. Ploughing the ground with hogs. He proposed some improvments and were honourably received. Glubbdubdrib He arrived at Maldonada.No ships ready.He took a short voyage to Glubbdubdrib.And was hospitably received by the governor. The governor had a power of calling whom he pleased from the dead. He had a chance to meet some ancient people,such as Aristotle,Homer and Alexader.And he found that the records of the history is not so correct. Luggnagg He returned to Maldonada and then sailed to the kingdom of Luggnagg. He was received by the king.He witnessed the kings great lenity to his subjects. He leaved Luggnagg,and sailed to Japan.From where he returned in a Dutch ship to Amsterdam,and from Amsterdam to England. A satire on corrupted philosophers and projectors. The voyage to laputa is a scathing(尖刻的)attack upon science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and reveals swift’s contempt and disdain for abstract theory and ideology that is not of practical service to human. * * Lapu