历史频道《人类:我们的故事》第十一集第12期:典型的移民故事
日期:2016-05-07 23:30

(单词翻译:单击)

我们的故事

April 15, 1912, 2:28am.

1912年四月十五日 凌晨两点二十八分

Two and three quarter hours after hitting an iceberg,

距离撞上冰山两小时四十五分钟之后


Titanic, the unsinkable ship, sinks.

永不沉没之船"泰坦尼克号"沉没了

Third-class passenger Theodor de Mulder clings to the wreckage.

三等舱乘客西奥多·马尔德死守着船体残骸

The water's fatally cold: 3 degrees below freezing.Help, please!

当时水温只有零下三度 冰冷致命 救命 救救我!

He could die of hypothermia in just 15 minutes.

不出十五分钟 他就会因体温过低而死

But De Mulder is one of the lucky ones.

然而马尔德属于那些幸运儿

Three days later, he arrives in New York.

三天之后 他会抵达纽约

He will go on to land a job at the Ford factory in Detroit,

他将继续在底特律的福特车厂找工作

A classic immigrant's tale.

这就是一个典型的移民故事

1,503 passengers and crew never reach New York.

船上1,503名乘客和船员 永远无法到达纽约了

When the Titanic hit that iceberg,

泰坦尼克撞上冰山

it set off a great period of re-examination of our faith in technology.

让我们重新审视 人类所信赖的那些科技

I don't think we've ever had quite the same optimism or trust

我认为我们并不曾这样乐观

that technology always serves our interest.

坚信科技会一直为我们的利益服务

重点讲解

1、go on

继续做

Unemployment is likely to go on rising this year.

今年的失业人数可能会继续上升。

I'm all right here. Go on with your work.

我这里很好,你继续工作吧。

进行;发生

While this conversation was going on, I was listening with earnest attention.

这场对话进行的时候,我聚精会神地听着。

I don't know what's going on.

我不知道发生了什么事。

(做完某事后)进而,接着(做另一件事)

Alliss retired from golf in 1969 and went on to become a successful broadcaster.

阿利斯于1969年从高尔夫球界退役,继而成为一名成功的节目主持人。

She went on to say that she had discussed it with the Canadian foreign minister.

她接着又说她已同加拿大外长就此进行了磋商。


2、quite

相当;很;颇

I felt quite bitter about it at the time.

当时我对这件事感到相当怨愤。

I was doing quite well, but I wasn't earning a lot of money.

我干得还算不错,可是挣的钱却不算多。

(用于强调所说的话)很,非常

It is quite clear that we were firing in self defence.

事实很清楚,我们开枪是出于自卫。

That's a general British failing. In the USA it's quite different.

那是英国人的普遍缺点。在美国,情况就大不一样了。

(与否定词连用,表示语气较弱或不确定)

Something here is not quite right.

这里有什么地方不太对劲。

After treatment he was able to continue but he was never quite the same.

治疗之后他又可以继续下去了,可是再也恢复不到从前的状态了。

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