大学英语精读听力第一册 unit2
[00:00.00]Unit Two Text
[00:21.34]At sixty-five Francis Chichester set out to sail single-handed round the world.
[00:28.21]This is the story of that adventure.
[00:27.21]SAILING ROUND THE WORLD
[00:30.16]Before he sailed round the world single-handed,
[00:34.45]Francis Chichester had already surprised his friends several times.
[00:34.55]He had tried to fly round the world but failed.
[00:38.42]That was in 1931.
[00:41.58]The years passed.
[00:44.37]He gave up flying and began sailing.
[00:46.46]He enjoyed it greatly.
[00:49.31]Chichester was already 58 years old
[00:52.39]when he won the first solo transatlantic sailing race.
[00:56.57]His old dream of going round the world came back,
[01:00.91]but this time he would sail.
[01:00.96]His friends and doctors did not think he could do it,
[01:05.32]as he had lung cancer.
[01:07.52]But Chichester was determined to carry out his plan.
[01:11.85]In August,1966,at the age of nearly sixty-five,
[01:18.72]an age when many men retire,
[01:21.18]he began the greatest voyage of his life.
[01:24.97]Soon,he was away in his new 16-meter boat,Gipsy Moth.
[01:31.00]Chichester followed the route of the great nineteenth century clipper ships.
[01:37.56]But the clippers had had plenty of crew.
[01:40.93]Chichester did it all by himself,
[01:46.26]even after the main steering device had been damaged by gales.
[01:51.11]Chichester covered 14,100 miles before stopping in Sydney, Australia.
[01:58.95]This was more than twice the distance anyone had previously sailed alone.
[02:04.65]He arrived in Australia on 12 December,
[02:09.32]just 107 days out from England.
[02:12.77]He received a warm welcome from the Australians and from his
[02:12.84]family who had flown there to meet him.
[02:15.38]On shore,Chichester could not walk without help.
[02:20.55]Everybody said the same thing:he had done enough;
[02:24.62]he must not go any further.But he did not listen.
[02:29.40]After resting in Sydney for a few weeks,
[02:33.35]Chichester set off once more
[02:35.70]in spite of his friends\' attempts to dissuade him.
[02:39.28]The second half of his voyage was by far the more dangerous part,
[02:39.42]during which he sailed round the treacherous Cape Horn.
[02:43.45]On 29 January he left Australia.
[02:48.28]The next night, the blackest he had ever known,
[02:52.17]the sea became so rough that the boat almost turned over.
[02:56.53]Food,clothes,and broken glass were all mixed together.
[03:01.47]Fortunately,the damage to the boat was not too serious.
[03:06.35]Chichester calmly got into bed and went to sleep.
[03:06.82]When he woke up,the sea had become calm again.
[03:10.71]Still,he could not help thinking that if anything should happen,
[03:15.62]the nearest person he could contact by radio,
[03:18.99]unless there was a ship nearby,
[03:21.13]would be on an island 885 miles away.
[03:25.70]After succeeding in sailing round Cape Horn,
[03:30.09]Chichester sent the following radio message to London:
[03:33.65]"I feel as if I had wakened from a nightmare.
[03:37.88]Wild horses could not drag me down
[03:40.86]to Cape Horn and that sinister Southern Ocean again."
[03:44.93]Just before 9 o\'clock on Sunday evening 28 May,1967,
[03:52.09]he arrived back in England,
[03:54.28]where a quarter of a million people were waiting to welcome him.
[03:58.41]Queen Elizabeth II knighted him with the very sword
[04:03.06]that Queen Elizabeth I had used
[04:05.31]almost 400 years earlier to knight Sir Francis Drake
[04:09.98]after he had sailed round the world for the first time.
[04:13.53]The whole voyage from England and back had covered 28,500 miles.
[04:21.08]It had taken him nine months,
[04:23.64]of which the sailing time was 226 days.
[04:27.95]He had done what he wanted to accomplish.
[04:31.53]Like many other adventurers,
[04:38.22]Chichester had experienced fear and conquered it.
[04:41.88]In doing so,he had undoubtedly learnt something about himself.
[04:47.96]Moreover,in the modern age when human beings depend so much on machines,
[04:54.42]he had given men throughout the world new pride.
[04:58.13]New Words
[05:14.17]single-handed
[05:15.13]a.&ad.单独的（地）
[05:16.10]adventure
[05:17.13]n.冒险（活动）
[05:18.16]solo
[05:19.18]a.单独的
[05:20.20]transatlantic
[05:21.71]a.横渡大西洋的
[05:23.23]lung
[05:24.31]n.肺
[05:25.40]cancer
[05:26.49]n.癌
[05:27.59]determined
[05:28.83]a.下定了决心的
[05:30.07]determine
[05:31.29]v.决定，决心，查明
[05:32.50]determination
[05:34.01]n.决定，决心
[05:35.51]retire
[05:36.79]vi.退休
[05:38.07]voyage
[05:39.58]n.航海;航行
[05:41.10]route
[05:42.53]n.路线
[05:43.97]clipper
[05:45.09]n.快速帆船
[05:46.22]crew
[05:47.35]n.全体船员;全体乘务员
[05:48.49]steer
[05:49.87]vt.为...掌舵;驾驶
[05:51.26]device
[05:52.54]n.设备装置
[05:53.82]steering device
[05:55.26]n.操舵装
[05:56.69]damage
[05:57.95]vt.损坏n.损坏
[05:59.20]gale
[06:00.28]n.大风
[06:01.37]cover
[06:02.40]vt.行过一段距离
[06:03.43]previously
[06:04.78]ad.以前
[06:06.12]previous
[06:07.59]a.先的，前的
[06:09.05]attempt
[06:10.21]v.&n.试图,尝试
[06:11.37]dissuade
[06:12.65]vt.劝阻
[06:13.93]treacherous
[06:15.20]暗藏危险的;奸诈的
[06:16.47]cape
[06:17.80]n.海角
[06:19.13]rough
[06:18.63]a.粗糙的，粗暴的
[06:18.13]fortunately
[06:19.52]ad.幸运地;幸亏
[06:20.90]fortunate
[06:22.29]a.幸运的，侥幸的
[06:23.67]contact
[06:25.15]vt.联系,接触
[06:26.62]nearby
[06:27.48]ad.在附近
[06:28.35]following
[06:29.42]a.接着的;下列的
[06:30.49]waken
[06:31.58]v. 唤醒;醒来
[06:32.68]nightmare
[06:33.71]恶梦
[06:34.75]drag
[06:35.00]vt.拖,拉
[06:35.25]sinister
[06:36.46]a.凶恶的,邪恶的
[06:37.68]knight
[06:38.82]n.爵士 vt.封...为爵士
[06:39.95]sword
[06:41.02]n.剑,刀
[06:42.09]accomplish
[06:43.43]vt.完成
[06:44.76]conquer
[06:45.89]vt.征服
[06:47.03]undoubtedly
[06:48.34]ad.无疑地
[06:49.64]moreover
[06:50.87]ad.此外,而且
[06:52.10]human
[06:51.60]a.人们
[06:51.10]being
[06:52.37]n.生物;人
[06:53.63]Phrases & Expressions
[06:57.68]set out
[06:58.66]着手,开始
[06:59.64]give up
[07:00.75]放弃
[07:01.86]be determined to(do)
[07:03.79]决心（做）
[07:05.73](all) by oneself
[07:07.61]亲力亲为
[07:09.49]in spite of
[07:11.13]尽管;虽然
[07:12.78]by far
[07:14.23]...得多
[07:15.68]turn over
[07:17.36](使)翻倒,(使)倾覆
[07:19.05]can not help
[07:19.10]禁不住
[07:19.16]Proper Names
[07:22.29]Francis Chichester
[07:23.59]弗朗西斯.奇切斯特
[07:24.88]Gipsy Moth
[07:26.30]吉普赛.莫斯
[07:27.73]Sydney
[07:29.21]悉尼(澳大利亚)
[07:30.70]Cape Horn
[07:32.05]合恩角(智利)
[07:33.39]London
[07:34.69]n.伦敦
[07:35.98]Elizabeth
[07:37.42]伊丽莎白(女子名)
[07:38.85]Drake
[07:40.15]德雷克(姓氏) unit6大学英语精读第一册 大学英语精读第一册unit3 大学英语精读第一册unit1 大学英语精读第一册unit5 大学英语精读四unit9 大学英语精读1
[00:21.34]At sixty-five Francis Chichester set out to sail single-handed round the world.
[00:28.21]This is the story of that adventure.
[00:27.21]SAILING ROUND THE WORLD
[00:30.16]Before he sailed round the world single-handed,
[00:34.45]Francis Chichester had already surprised his friends several times.
[00:34.55]He had tried to fly round the world but failed.
[00:38.42]That was in 1931.
[00:41.58]The years passed.
[00:44.37]He gave up flying and began sailing.
[00:46.46]He enjoyed it greatly.
[00:49.31]Chichester was already 58 years old
[00:52.39]when he won the first solo transatlantic sailing race.
[00:56.57]His old dream of going round the world came back,
[01:00.91]but this time he would sail.
[01:00.96]His friends and doctors did not think he could do it,
[01:05.32]as he had lung cancer.
[01:07.52]But Chichester was determined to carry out his plan.
[01:11.85]In August,1966,at the age of nearly sixty-five,
[01:18.72]an age when many men retire,
[01:21.18]he began the greatest voyage of his life.
[01:24.97]Soon,he was away in his new 16-meter boat,Gipsy Moth.
[01:31.00]Chichester followed the route of the great nineteenth century clipper ships.
[01:37.56]But the clippers had had plenty of crew.
[01:40.93]Chichester did it all by himself,
[01:46.26]even after the main steering device had been damaged by gales.
[01:51.11]Chichester covered 14,100 miles before stopping in Sydney, Australia.
[01:58.95]This was more than twice the distance anyone had previously sailed alone.
[02:04.65]He arrived in Australia on 12 December,
[02:09.32]just 107 days out from England.
[02:12.77]He received a warm welcome from the Australians and from his
[02:12.84]family who had flown there to meet him.
[02:15.38]On shore,Chichester could not walk without help.
[02:20.55]Everybody said the same thing:he had done enough;
[02:24.62]he must not go any further.But he did not listen.
[02:29.40]After resting in Sydney for a few weeks,
[02:33.35]Chichester set off once more
[02:35.70]in spite of his friends\' attempts to dissuade him.
[02:39.28]The second half of his voyage was by far the more dangerous part,
[02:39.42]during which he sailed round the treacherous Cape Horn.
[02:43.45]On 29 January he left Australia.
[02:48.28]The next night, the blackest he had ever known,
[02:52.17]the sea became so rough that the boat almost turned over.
[02:56.53]Food,clothes,and broken glass were all mixed together.
[03:01.47]Fortunately,the damage to the boat was not too serious.
[03:06.35]Chichester calmly got into bed and went to sleep.
[03:06.82]When he woke up,the sea had become calm again.
[03:10.71]Still,he could not help thinking that if anything should happen,
[03:15.62]the nearest person he could contact by radio,
[03:18.99]unless there was a ship nearby,
[03:21.13]would be on an island 885 miles away.
[03:25.70]After succeeding in sailing round Cape Horn,
[03:30.09]Chichester sent the following radio message to London:
[03:33.65]"I feel as if I had wakened from a nightmare.
[03:37.88]Wild horses could not drag me down
[03:40.86]to Cape Horn and that sinister Southern Ocean again."
[03:44.93]Just before 9 o\'clock on Sunday evening 28 May,1967,
[03:52.09]he arrived back in England,
[03:54.28]where a quarter of a million people were waiting to welcome him.
[03:58.41]Queen Elizabeth II knighted him with the very sword
[04:03.06]that Queen Elizabeth I had used
[04:05.31]almost 400 years earlier to knight Sir Francis Drake
[04:09.98]after he had sailed round the world for the first time.
[04:13.53]The whole voyage from England and back had covered 28,500 miles.
[04:21.08]It had taken him nine months,
[04:23.64]of which the sailing time was 226 days.
[04:27.95]He had done what he wanted to accomplish.
[04:31.53]Like many other adventurers,
[04:38.22]Chichester had experienced fear and conquered it.
[04:41.88]In doing so,he had undoubtedly learnt something about himself.
[04:47.96]Moreover,in the modern age when human beings depend so much on machines,
[04:54.42]he had given men throughout the world new pride.
[04:58.13]New Words
[05:14.17]single-handed
[05:15.13]a.&ad.单独的（地）
[05:16.10]adventure
[05:17.13]n.冒险（活动）
[05:18.16]solo
[05:19.18]a.单独的
[05:20.20]transatlantic
[05:21.71]a.横渡大西洋的
[05:23.23]lung
[05:24.31]n.肺
[05:25.40]cancer
[05:26.49]n.癌
[05:27.59]determined
[05:28.83]a.下定了决心的
[05:30.07]determine
[05:31.29]v.决定，决心，查明
[05:32.50]determination
[05:34.01]n.决定，决心
[05:35.51]retire
[05:36.79]vi.退休
[05:38.07]voyage
[05:39.58]n.航海;航行
[05:41.10]route
[05:42.53]n.路线
[05:43.97]clipper
[05:45.09]n.快速帆船
[05:46.22]crew
[05:47.35]n.全体船员;全体乘务员
[05:48.49]steer
[05:49.87]vt.为...掌舵;驾驶
[05:51.26]device
[05:52.54]n.设备装置
[05:53.82]steering device
[05:55.26]n.操舵装
[05:56.69]damage
[05:57.95]vt.损坏n.损坏
[05:59.20]gale
[06:00.28]n.大风
[06:01.37]cover
[06:02.40]vt.行过一段距离
[06:03.43]previously
[06:04.78]ad.以前
[06:06.12]previous
[06:07.59]a.先的，前的
[06:09.05]attempt
[06:10.21]v.&n.试图,尝试
[06:11.37]dissuade
[06:12.65]vt.劝阻
[06:13.93]treacherous
[06:15.20]暗藏危险的;奸诈的
[06:16.47]cape
[06:17.80]n.海角
[06:19.13]rough
[06:18.63]a.粗糙的，粗暴的
[06:18.13]fortunately
[06:19.52]ad.幸运地;幸亏
[06:20.90]fortunate
[06:22.29]a.幸运的，侥幸的
[06:23.67]contact
[06:25.15]vt.联系,接触
[06:26.62]nearby
[06:27.48]ad.在附近
[06:28.35]following
[06:29.42]a.接着的;下列的
[06:30.49]waken
[06:31.58]v. 唤醒;醒来
[06:32.68]nightmare
[06:33.71]恶梦
[06:34.75]drag
[06:35.00]vt.拖,拉
[06:35.25]sinister
[06:36.46]a.凶恶的,邪恶的
[06:37.68]knight
[06:38.82]n.爵士 vt.封...为爵士
[06:39.95]sword
[06:41.02]n.剑,刀
[06:42.09]accomplish
[06:43.43]vt.完成
[06:44.76]conquer
[06:45.89]vt.征服
[06:47.03]undoubtedly
[06:48.34]ad.无疑地
[06:49.64]moreover
[06:50.87]ad.此外,而且
[06:52.10]human
[06:51.60]a.人们
[06:51.10]being
[06:52.37]n.生物;人
[06:53.63]Phrases & Expressions
[06:57.68]set out
[06:58.66]着手,开始
[06:59.64]give up
[07:00.75]放弃
[07:01.86]be determined to(do)
[07:03.79]决心（做）
[07:05.73](all) by oneself
[07:07.61]亲力亲为
[07:09.49]in spite of
[07:11.13]尽管;虽然
[07:12.78]by far
[07:14.23]...得多
[07:15.68]turn over
[07:17.36](使)翻倒,(使)倾覆
[07:19.05]can not help
[07:19.10]禁不住
[07:19.16]Proper Names
[07:22.29]Francis Chichester
[07:23.59]弗朗西斯.奇切斯特
[07:24.88]Gipsy Moth
[07:26.30]吉普赛.莫斯
[07:27.73]Sydney
[07:29.21]悉尼(澳大利亚)
[07:30.70]Cape Horn
[07:32.05]合恩角(智利)
[07:33.39]London
[07:34.69]n.伦敦
[07:35.98]Elizabeth
[07:37.42]伊丽莎白(女子名)
[07:38.85]Drake
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