精读32：A lost ship||一艘沉船（二）

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A lost ship

lost: If something is lost, or gets lost, you cannot find it, for example, because you have forgotten where you put it.丢失的，如：a lost book. 一本丢失的书。

①The salvage operation had been a complete failure.②The small ship, Elkor, which had been searching the BarentsSea for weeks, was on its way home.③A radio message from the mainland had been received by the ship's captain instructing him to give up the search.④The captain knew that another attempt would be made later, for the sunkenship he was trying to find had been carrying a precious cargo of gold bullion.

语篇导读：本段阐述打捞沉船的背景。①②③打捞沉船的工作最终以失败告终，陆上发来电报，要求停止搜索。④由于沉船载有珍贵的金条，船长认为还会再次尝试打捞。在结构上，这句话为下文埋下伏笔。 

salvage /'sælvɪdʒ/：If something is salvaged, someone manages to save it, for example, from a ship that has sunk, or from a building that has been damaged.抢救，营救，打捞 (沉船或被毁楼房中的财物)，如：The team's first task was to decide what equipment could be salvaged. 该队的首要任务是决定要抢救出什么设备。

Barents /'bærənts/: a part of the Arctic Ocean north of Norway and Russia, named after Willem Barents巴伦支海

on its way home:返航途中。On one’s way (to…)：在（去……的）路上，如：His soul's on its way to heaven. 他的灵魂正在前往天堂的路上。

【难句解析】The small ship, Elkor, which had been searching the Barents Sea for weeks, was on its way home. ①which引导非限制定语从句，对Elkor号小船作进一步解释说明；②由于search动作发生在was（过去时）之前，因此使用过去完成时，加上search动作仍在进行，因此，使用过去完成进行时had been searching。

【语法小学堂】过去完成进行时：①构成：“had been+现在分词”；②用法：⑴过去完成时可以表示一个动作已经结束，但其结果仍然影响到过去的某一时刻，如：It had been raining and the street was still wet. 天一直在下雨，街道仍然很湿。⑵表示一个动作一直延续到过去某一时刻，通常强调动作的持续性和不间断性，如：She had been studying for one hour when her classmate came to visit her.当她的同学来看她的时候，她学习有一个小时了。

参考地址：https://www.hjenglish.com/new/p1194896/

...instructing him to give up the search：现在分词短语作定语，修饰message

instruct sb to do sth.：指示某人干某事。如：His secretary was instructed to cancel all his engagements. 他的秘书接到通知，取消他所有的预约。

captain /'kæptɪn/：the sailor in charge of a ship, or the pilot in charge of an aircraft舰长，船长；机长，如：The captain and crew welcome you aboard. 机长和全体机组人员欢迎各位乘坐本次航班。

sunken /'sʌŋk(ə)n/：having fallen to the bottom of the sea, a lake, or a river沉没的，沉在海[湖，河]底的，如：the wrecks of sunken ships 沉船的残骸

cargo/'kɑːgəʊ/：the goods that are being carried in a ship or plane〔船或飞机装载的〕（一批）货物，如：A ship carrying a cargo of oil has run aground. 一艘载油轮船搁浅了。

bullion /'bʊljən/：bars of gold or silver金[银]条，金[银]块，如：At the time of publication, Bill Fleckenstein owned gold bullion and gold futures. 本文发表的时候，比尔·弗雷肯斯坦持有金砖以及黄金期货。

①Despite the message, the captain of the Elkor decided to try once more.②The sea bed wasscoured withpowerful nets and there was tremendous excitement on board when a chest was raised from the bottom.③Though the crew were at first under the impression that the lost ship had been found, the contents of the chest proved them wrong.④What they had in fact found was a ship which had been sunk many years before.

语篇导读：本段讲述“埃尔科”号船长再次打捞的时候，打捞上另一艘船的沉箱。①船长决定再次打捞；②③④打捞上来的箱子让甲板上的人兴奋不已，但里面的物品证明箱子来自另一艘沉船。

despite：尽管、不顾，引导让步状语

scour/'skaʊə/：to search very carefully and thoroughly through an area, a document etc〔彻底地〕搜寻，翻找，搜查，如：Her family began to scour the countryside for a suitable house. 她的家人开始在乡下寻找合适的房子。

with powerful nets：介词短语，作方式状语

【熟词僻义】chest/tʃest/：a large strong box that you use to store things in or to move your personal possessions from one place to another箱，大箱子，如：a large wooden chest 一只大木箱

be under the impression that：认为，以为，如：But I was under the impression that inflation is unavoidable .但是我觉得通货膨胀是难免的。

contents /'kɒntents/：The contents of a container such as a bottle, box, or room are the things that are inside it.（复数） (瓶子、盒子或房间的) 所容之物，如：Empty the contents of the pan into the sieve. 将平锅里的东西全部倒入漏勺。

【难句解析】What they had in fact found was a ship which had been sunk many years before.：①What they had in fact found：what是关系代词，引导名词性从句，作主语；②which had been sunk many years before：which是关系代词，引导定语从句，修饰先行词ship；③sink动作在was之前发生，因此用过去完成时。

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