环球英语 — 90: Around the World
时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:环球英语 Spotlight
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Thank you for joining us for today’s Spotlight 1 program. I’m Courtney Schutt.
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And I’m Ryan Geertsma. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
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Have you ever wanted to travel around the whole world? Can you imagine what that trip would be like? What places would you visit? What people would you meet?
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In 1991, Jason Lewis and Steve Smith decided 2 to take a trip around the world. But they did not want it to be a normal trip. No, they decided to do something special.
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When most people take a long trip, they travel in a car, a boat or an airplane. These vehicles 3 make it easier to travel quickly. But Jason Lewis and Steve Smith decided not to use normal vehicles for their trip around the world. Instead, they wanted to travel using only human power.
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Many people have travelled around the whole earth. In fact, the first trip around the world happened almost five hundred [500] years ago! In the early fifteen hundreds [1500’s], Ferdinand Magellan and his large crew 4 sailed ships all the way around the earth. The trip took them six years, and most of the crew died before it ended.
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But no one had ever travelled around the world using only human power. Magellan used ships that were pushed by the wind. Other trips around the world have been powered by engines in planes, boats, cars, and other vehicles. So Jason Lewis and Steve Smith decided that they would be the first people to travel around the earth without power from sails or engines.
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The men knew that this would be a difficult trip. They knew that it would take a long time to prepare. So along with some friends, they began gathering 5 everything they needed.
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As their first project, the men built a boat. The boat needed to be human powered. It could not have any sails. It could not have an engine. So they came up with a new idea.
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Their feet powered this boat, using pedals 7 like a bicycle. But instead of moving a two wheeled machine, the pedalling moved the boat through the water! The boat was made from very light material so that it moved easily. It was also very small--just large enough for two men and their equipment.
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In a few years, Jason and Steve finally had everything they needed for their trip. They left the United 8 Kingdom in 1994. In their boat, they travelled into the Atlantic Ocean. They soon learned 9 that the trip would be very difficult. Jason said,
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“When we got into the ocean, everything was quiet. Only then did we learn how difficult it would be. We wondered if we had made a mistake. For the first few days and weeks, we felt frightened. What if we were run over by a ship in the middle of the night? What if our boat broke apart?”
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The boat had two seats--one for pedalling the boat, the other for resting. The men changed positions every 2 or 3 hours so that both got a chance to eat and sleep. But there was more to do on the boat than just sleep and pedal 6.
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“There were many other things that kept us busy during the day. We cooked, watched our position on a map, and fixed 10 things that broke on the boat. I brought a guitar with me and at times I would sit on the top of the boat and play music. But at night, there was not as much to do. When you pedalled, you would just imagine different things for hours and hours.”
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After more than eighty days in the ocean, Jason and Steve felt very lonely. It was almost Christmas day, and the two men felt sad that they did not have any way to celebrate. But they soon had a reason to feel excited.
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“In the distance, we saw a huge ship that was not moving. We called to it on our radio, and learned that it was a repair ship. They invited us to come on their boat and they gave us an amazing Christmas dinner. We even got a chance to clean the ocean water off our skin.”
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A few weeks later, the men had another reason to celebrate. After more than three months in the ocean, they finally reached land.
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“That first time reaching land was one of the best parts of the whole trip. We arrived on a cold day with a large group of people waiting to meet us. When we stepped off the boat, we almost fell down. We had been on the ocean for so long that we did not remember how to walk on land!”
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The men soon travelled to the United States, where they began the first on-land part of their trip. After a few weeks, Steve Smith decided that the trip was too difficult, and he returned home. But Jason continued on by himself. Using only a bicycle and his feet, Jason travelled thousands of kilometres across the United States. But a terrible accident almost ended his trip.
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Almost halfway 11 across the United States, a car hit Jason. The fall broke both of his legs. It took a long time before he could walk again. Finally, after nine months, he could continue his trip around the world.
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Jason travelled south from the United States into Mexico. He then got back into his boat and pedalled across the Pacific Ocean, stopping in Hawaii. Then he pedalled all the way to Australia! The trip was going well, but Jason was almost out of money.
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“Most of the money for the trip was being lent to me by my friends. But I needed to earn some more money to continue the trip. So I got a job cutting trees. After working for about two and a half years, I had enough money for the rest of the trip.”
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Jason travelled from Australia into Indonesia 12 and Singapore. He crossed Malaysia, Thailand, and even entered southern China. From there, he travelled thousands of kilometres into Africa. And then, it was only a few months until he completed his trip around the world. On October 6, 2007, Jason took his boat across the English Channel, back to the exact place that he began. The trip took 13 years, but Jason does not regret any of it.
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“This trip took a third of my life. But I have met amazing people, I have seen amazing things. I have learned so much about the world. I feel that I am one of the luckiest people in the world!”
- This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
- The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- There is not much clearance for vehicles passing under this bridge. 车辆在这座桥下通过时没有多少余隙。
- to carry out random spot checks on vehicles 对车辆进行抽检
- A captain controls his ship and its crew.船长管理他的船和船上的船员。
- The captain kept his crew at a distance.船长与他的船员总保持一段距离。
- He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
- He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
- He pressed down the accelerator pedal of his car.他踩下汽车的加速器踏板。
- I saw him pedal to school every morning.我看到他每天早晨骑自行车上学。
- I couldn't reach the pedals on her bike. 我骑她的车够不到脚蹬子。
- The pedals of a cycle are attached to a crank. 自行车的踏板与曲柄相连。 来自辞典例句
- The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
- The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。
- He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
- In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
- Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
- Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
- We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
- In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。