新概念英语第二册课文Lesson 66 Sweet as honey! 像蜜一样甜！

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新概念英语第二册课文Lesson 66 Sweet as honey! 像蜜一样甜！

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. I magine 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!

New words and expressions 生词和短语

Lancaster (1.1)/'læn'kæstə/n. 兰开斯特

package(1.8)/'pækidʒ/v.把……打包

bomber(1.1)/'bɑmə/n.轰炸机

enthusiast(1.9)/in'θju:ziæst/n.热心人

remote(1.1)/ri'mәut/adj. 偏僻的

restore(1.9)/rıs'tɔ:/v.修复

Pacific(1.2)/pә'sifik/n. 太平洋

imagine(1.10)/i'mædʒin/v. 想像

damage(1.3)/'dæmidʒ/v. 毁坏

packing case (11.10-11)/'pækiŋ-keis/包装箱

wreck(1.4)/rek/ n.残骸

colony(1.11)/'kɑləni/n.群

rediscover(1.5)/ri:dis'kʌvə/v.重新发现

bee(1.11)/bi:/n.蜂

aerial(1.5)/'eəriəl/adj. 航空的

hive(1.12)/haiv/n.蜂房

survey(1.6)/'sə:vei/n. 调查

preserve(1.12)/pri'zə:v/v.保护

rescue(1.7)/'reskju:/v. 营救

beeswax (1.12)/'bi:zwæks/n.蜂蜡

Notes on the text 课文注释

1 west of Samoa, 萨摩亚群岛以西。

2 worth rescuing, 有抢救的价值。

3 The French authorities had the plane packaged and moved in parts back to France.

法国政府让人把飞机包装起来，一部分一部分地搬回法国。句子中的动词have被称为使役动词，结构是have+名词或代词+过去分词。在使用这种结构时，我们可能不知道或认为不必指明为我们服务的人是谁，然而，这种结构比被动语态更强调“使”别人为我们服务这一事实。

参考译文

1963年，一架兰开斯特轰炸机在瓦立斯岛坠毁。那是南太平洋中一个很偏僻的小岛，位于萨摩亚群岛以西，距离群岛还有很长一段距离。飞机损坏的程度并不严重，但是，多年来这起飞机失事已被遗忘，飞机残骸也没受到破坏。于是，到了1989年，飞机失事26年后，在对小岛的一次航空勘查中那架飞机被意外地发现了。到了那个时候，状况良好的兰开斯特轰炸机实属罕见，值得抢救。法国政府让人把飞机包装起来，一部分一部分地搬回法国。一群热心人计划修复这架飞机。该飞机装配有4台罗尔斯-罗伊斯的默林发动机，但是他们只需要修复其中的3台。想一想他们所感受到的惊奇和兴奋——当他们拆开包装箱时，他们发现第4台发动机就像蜂蜜一样甜——发动机完好无损。一群蜜蜂把发动机当作了蜂房，发动机在蜂蜡中被完整地保存了下来。

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