Sweet as honey! 像蜜一樣甜!

【課文】

In 1963 a Lancaster bomber crashed on Wallis Island, a remote place in the South Pacific, a long way west of Samoa. The plane wasn't too badly damaged, but over the years, the crash was forgotten and the wreck remained undisturbed. Then in 1989, twenty-six years after the crash, the plane was accidentally rediscovered in an aerial survey of the island. By this time, a Lancaster bomber in reasonable condition was rare and worth rescuing. The French authorities had the plane packaged and moved in parts back to France. Now a group of enthusiasts are going to have the plane restored. It has four Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, but the group will need to have only three of them rebuilt. Imagine their surprise and delight when they broke open the packing cases and found that the fourth engine was sweet as honey -- still in perfect condition. A colony of bees had turned the engine into a hive and it was totally preserved in beeswax!

【課文翻譯】

1963年, 一架蘭開斯特轟炸機在瓦立斯島墜毀. 那是南太平洋中一個很偏僻的小島, 位于薩摩亞群島以西, 距離群島還有很長一段距離. 飛機損壞的程度并不嚴重, 但是, 多年來這起飛機失事已被遺忘, 飛機殘骸也 沒受到破壞. 于是, 到了1989年, 飛機失事26年后, 在對小島的一次航空勘查中那架飛機被意外地發(fā)現(xiàn)了. 到了那個時候, 狀況良好的蘭開斯特轟炸機實屬罕見, 值得搶救. 法國政府讓人把飛機包裝起來, 一部分一部分 地搬回法國. 一群熱心人計劃修復這架飛機. 該飛機裝配有4臺羅爾斯-羅伊斯的默林發(fā)動機, 但是他們只需要修復其中的3臺. 想一想他們所感受到的驚奇和興奮——當他們拆開包裝箱時, 他們發(fā)現(xiàn)第4臺發(fā)動機就像蜂蜜一樣甜——發(fā)動機完好無損. 一群蜜蜂把發(fā)動機當作了蜂房, 發(fā)動機在蜂蠟中被完整地保存了下來.

【生詞匯總】

Lancaster n. 蘭開斯特

bomber n. 轟炸機

remote adj. 偏僻的

Pacific n. 太平洋

damage v. 毀壞

wreck n. 殘骸

rediscover v. 重新發(fā)現(xiàn)

aerial adj. 航空的

survey n. 調查

rescue v. 營救(=save)

package v. 把……打包

enthusiast n. 熱心人

restore v. 修復(修并且復原,如對藝術品的修復)

imagine v. 想像

packing case 包裝箱

colony n. 群

bee n. 蜂

hive n. 蜂房

preserve v. 保護

beeswax n. 蜂蠟

【短語匯總】

move in parts分塊搬運

turn sth into sth將……轉變成……

【知識點講解】

1，在英文中跟方位感相連的介詞有三個in, on, to

in 隸屬關系

Haerbin’s in the north of China.

on是指跟一個地方有接觸面

Korea is on the north of China.

to是相離的概念

Japan is to the east of China.

west of=to the west of

2，imagine后面可以直接加賓語

Imagine my excitement when I found my mother outside.

Imagine their excitement and delight when the People’s Republic of China was founded.。

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