Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World — Page 3
这几次航行中,最后一次运气不太好,我对海上生活感到厌倦,打算留在家中与妻儿共度时光。
The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family.
我从老朱厄里搬到了费特巷,又从那里搬到了沃平,希望能在水手中间找到生意;但始终没能成功。
I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account.
在等待了三年、期盼情况好转之后,我接受了安特洛普号船长威廉·普里查德的一份优厚邀约,他正准备前往南海航行。
After three years expectation that things would mend, I accepted an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea.
我们于一六九九年五月四日从布里斯托尔出发,航行之初一切顺利。
We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage was at first very prosperous.
出于某些原因,将我们在那片海域中的历险细节一一告知读者并不合适;只需说明这一点便已足够:在我们从那里前往东印度群岛的途中,一场猛烈的风暴将我们吹向了范迪门斯地的西北方向。
It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to inform him, that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the north-west of Van Diemen's Land.
经过观测,我们发现自己位于南纬三十度零两分的位置。
By an observation, we found ourselves in the latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south.
船员中有十二人因过度劳累和食物匮乏而相继死去,其余的人也都体力极为虚弱。
Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour and ill food; the rest were in a very weak condition.
十一月五日,正值那一带夏季初始之时,天色十分阴蒙,水手们发现距船不到半缆之处有一块礁石;然而风势太强,我们被径直刮向礁石,船只当即触礁粉碎。
On the 5th of November, which was the beginning of summer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within half a cable's length of the ship; but the wind was so strong, that we were driven directly upon it, and immediately split.
Vocabulary
- last
- 最后的;最近的一次
- voyages
- 长途航海旅行,复数形式
- proving
- 证明;结果是某种情况
- fortunate
- 幸运的,有好运气的
- grew
- 变得;grow的过去式
- weary
- 疲倦的;厌倦的
- sea
- 大海,海洋
- intended
- 打算,有意做某事
- stay
- 停留,留在某处不离开
- wife
- 妻子,已婚男性的配偶
- removed
- 迁移,搬到另一个地方居住
- Lane
- 小巷,窄路;此处为地名组成部分
- thence
- 从那里,由那处(书面语)
- hoping
- 希望,期待某事发生
- business
- 生意,商业活动
- among
- 在……之中,处于某群体内
- sailors
- 水手,航海的船员,复数
- turn
- 转变;此处为习语"turn to account"的组成部分
- account
- 账户;turn to account意为有所获益
- expectation
- 期望,期待某事发生
- mend
- 改善,好转;修补
- accepted
- 接受,同意某项提议
- advantageous
- 有利的,能带来好处的
- offer
- 提议,提供的机会或条件
- Captain
- 船长,军队上尉,指挥官
- master
- 主人;船长;精通某技能的人
- Antelope
- 羚羊号,船名;羚羊(动物)
- voyage
- 长途航海,海上旅行
- sail
- 帆;航行;set sail意为出发航行
- prosperous
- 繁荣的,顺利的,成功的
- proper
- 适当的,合适的,正确的
- reasons
- 原因,理由,复数
- trouble
- 麻烦;此处指"劳烦读者"
- reader
- 读者,阅读此文章的人
- particulars
- 细节,详情,具体情况
- adventures
- 冒险经历,奇遇,复数
- seas
- 海域,海洋,复数
- suffice
- 足够,满足需要
- inform
- 告知,通知某人某事
- passage
- 通道;航程,一段旅程
- driven
- 被驱使;被风浪吹向某处
- violent
- 猛烈的,剧烈的,暴力的
- storm
- 暴风雨,强烈的风暴
- north-west
- 西北方向,西北部
- observation
- 观测,观察;此处指天文或导航观测
- ourselves
- 我们自己,反身代词
- latitude
- 纬度,地球上南北方向的坐标
- degrees
- 度,角度或温度等的单位
- crew
- 船员,全体工作人员
- dead
- 死亡的,已死去的
- immoderate
- 过度的,无节制的,超出正常限度
- labour
- 劳动,体力劳动,辛苦工作
- ill
- 不好的;劣质的;有害的
- rest
- 休息;其余,剩余部分
- weak
- 虚弱的,软弱的,力量不足
- condition
- 状况,状态,条件
- beginning
- 开始,开端,起始阶段
- parts
- 地区,部分;in those parts意为在那些地方
- hazy
- 雾蒙蒙的,模糊不清的
- seamen
- 水手,船员,复数
- spied
- 看见,发现,spy的过去式
- rock
- 岩石,礁石
- within
- 在……范围之内,不超过
- length
- 长度,距离,延伸的范围
- ship
- 船,大型水上交通工具
- directly
- 直接地,径直地
- immediately
- 立即,马上,毫不延迟地
- split
- 裂开,分裂;船触礁后碎裂
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