新概念英語第四冊(含lrc文本)Lesson 27 The 'Vasa'

[ti:δ?] [ar:] [al:] [by:https://www.lrc.com.cn] [00:00.59]Lesson 27 [00:05.03]The 'Vasa' [00:11.26]What happened to the 'Vasa' almost immediately after she was launched? [00:18.79]From the seventeenth-century empire of Sweden, [00:21.56]the story of a galleon that sank at the start of her maiden voyage in 1628 [00:27.56]must be one of the strangest tales of the sea. [00:31.22]For nearly three and a half centuries she lay at the bottom of Stockholm harbour [00:36.39]until her discovery in 1956. [00:39.91]This was the Vasa,royal flagship of the great imperial fleet. [00:46.78]King Gustavus Adolphus 'The Northern Hurricane', [00:50.49]then at the height of his military success in the 'Thirty Years' War, [00:55.34]had dictated her measurements and armament. [00:59.12]Triple gun-decks mounted sixty-four bronze cannon. [01:03.10]She was intended to play a leading role in the growing might of Sweden. [01:08.88]As she was prepared for her maiden voyage on August 10, 1628, [01:14.28]Stockholm was in a ferment. [01:17.05]From the Skeppsbron and surrounding islands [01:20.16]the people watched this thing of beauty [01:22.61]begin to spread her sails and catch the wind. [01:26.48]They had laboured for three years to produce this floating work of art; [01:31.53]she was more richly carved and ornamented than any previous ship [01:36.90]The high stern castle was a riot of carved gods,demons,knights,kings,warriors, [01:44.73]mermaids,cherubs;and zoomorphic animal shapes ablaze with red and gold and blue, [01:52.29]symbols of courage,power,and cruelty, [01:55.95]were portrayed to stir the imaginations of the superstitious sailors of the day. [02:03.00]Then the cannons of the anchored warships thundered a salute [02:06.80]to which the Vasa fired in reply. [02:10.82]As she emerged from her drifting cloud of gun smoke [02:14.20]with the water churned to foam beneath her bow, [02:17.83]her flags flying,pennants waving,sails filling in the breeze, [02:23.56]and the red and gold or her superstructure ablaze with colour, [02:27.91]she presented a more majestic spectacle than Stockholmers had ever seen before. [02:34.68]All gun-ports were open and the muzzles peeped wickedly from them. [02:40.22]As the wind freshened there came a sudden squall [02:43.82]and the ship made a strange movement, listing to port. [02:48.77]The Ordnance officer ordered all the port cannon to be heaved to starboard [02:53.21]to counteract the list but the steepening angle of the decksincreased. [02:58.95]Then the sound of rumbling thunder reached the watchers on the shore, [03:03.41]as cargo,ballast,ammunition and 400 people [03:08.54]went sliding and crashing down to the port side of the steeply listing ship. [03:14.01]The lower gun-ports were now belew water and the inrush sealedthe ship's fate. [03:20.90]In that first glorious hour,the mighty Vasa, which was intended to rule the Baltic, [03:27.49]sank with all flags flying--in the harbour of her birth.

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