时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物


英语课

   DURING THE PERIOD in which these developments were occurring,


  这些事件发生的时候,
  I had returned from a scientific undertaking 1 organized to explore the Nebraska badlands in the United States.
  我正从美国内布拉斯加州的贫瘠地区做完了科学考察回来。
  In my capacity as Assistant Professor at the Paris Museum of Natural History, I had been attached to this expedition by the French government.
  由于我是巴黎自然科学博物馆的副教授,法国政府派我参加这次考察,
  After spending six months in Nebraska, I arrived in New York laden 2 with valuable collections near the end of March. My departure for France was set for early May.
  在内布拉斯加州度过了六个月的时间,三月底,我满载了珍贵的标本回到纽约,我动身回法国的日期定在五月初。
  In the meantime, then, I was busy classifying my mineralogical, botanical, and zoological treasures when that incident took place with the Scotia.
  所以,我就利用逗留期间,把这次收集来的矿物标本和动、植物标本加以整理,而斯各脱亚号的意外事件就是在这个时候发生的。
  I was perfectly 3 abreast 4 of this question, which was the big news of the day, and how could I not have been?
  我自然也熟悉当时议论纷纷的这个问题,而且我怎能不知道呢?
  I had read and reread every American and European newspaper without being any farther along. This mystery puzzled me.
  我把美国和欧洲的各种报刊读了又读,但没有获得进一步的了解。因为这个怪物,我作了种种猜测。
  Finding it impossible to form any views, I drifted from one extreme to the other.
  由于自己拿不定主意,我始终摇摆于极端不同的见解之间。
  Something was out there, that much was certain, and any doubting Thomas was invited to place his finger on the Scotia's wound.
  这是一件真实的事,那是无可置疑的;怀疑这事的人,请他们去摸一摸斯各脱亚号的裂口好了。
  When I arrived in New York, the question was at the boiling point.
  当我到纽约的时候,这问题正闹得热火朝天。
  The hypothesis of a drifting islet or an elusive 5 reef, put forward by people not quite in their right minds, was completely eliminated.
  有些不学无术的人曾经说那是浮动的小岛,是不可捉摸的暗礁,不过,这种假设,现在完全被推翻了。

n.保证,许诺,事业
  • He gave her an undertaking that he would pay the money back with in a year.他向她做了一年内还钱的保证。
  • He is too timid to venture upon an undertaking.他太胆小,不敢从事任何事业。
adj.装满了的;充满了的;负了重担的;苦恼的
  • He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
  • Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
adv.并排地;跟上(时代)的步伐,与…并进地
  • She kept abreast with the flood of communications that had poured in.她及时回复如雪片般飞来的大批信件。
  • We can't keep abreast of the developing situation unless we study harder.我们如果不加强学习,就会跟不上形势。
adj.难以表达(捉摸)的;令人困惑的;逃避的
  • Try to catch the elusive charm of the original in translation.翻译时设法把握住原文中难以捉摸的风韵。
  • Interpol have searched all the corners of the earth for the elusive hijackers.国际刑警组织已在世界各地搜查在逃的飞机劫持者。
学英语单词
acanthoidine
adjacent line
air-breather
ambiguohypoglossal
avoking
bestower
buffer reagent
buy-and-holds
catanator
caveling
chlordan
cost-reimbursement
de-activation
Deinotherioidea
democratic values
desoxypyridoxine
dexamethasones
diameter of working disk
diatonic auxiliary note
discretamine
domain magnetization
double-layer fluorescent screen
dropper plate of free grain
Drusze
dynamicize
editon
elbow equivalent
electrode-travel motor
embraced
endomycopsis hordel
Engler viscosimeter
fairwells
fang-likest
fawns on
federal radio act 1927
fling oneself into the breach
fluoroolefin
free-taking
general staff
grinding media charge
hachi
hard-fightings
Hatsukaichi
HRST
ignition of precipitate
inverse mercator
iodine trap
jM-factor
karhunen loeve transform (klt)
kemerer
laughing-eyed
liege poustie
light-alloy armo(u)r
Longué-Jumelles
lophocoronids
Louis Henri
market chaotic
multistage linear amplifier
Narfeyri
Ngoso
octuplex
optical fiber ribbons
organised-crimes
pass in a program
pelviroentgenography
photoelectrocatalytic reactor
phrenemphraxis
polar moments of inertia
portcullised
practice range
prevelar
primordisl endoderm cells
reave
Rectocillin
residual concentration
Riemann upper integral
rifle shot
safo
saltations
screw-tap
sebiferic acid
second anchor
short-lived asset
sleight-of-hand
sniol
sound-barriers
speed change control
stalk extractor
structurality
Tharrawaw
thirst bucket
thoughted
three-dimensional imaging
throw dust in someone's eyes
transnationally
unwed mother
vel non
voiced sounds
votes down
well-customed
wharfies
wrecking