Chapter 5 Adventure（8） 第5章 冒险活动 (8)
原文赏析：
For three months, during which each day seemed like a century, the Abraham Lincoln plowed all the northerly seas of the Pacific,
racing after whales sighted, abruptly veering off course, swerving sharply from one tack to another, stopping suddenly,
putting on steam and reversing engines in quick succession, at the risk of stripping its gears,
and it didn't leave a single point unexplored from the beaches of Japan to the coasts of America.
And we found nothing! Nothing except an immenseness of deserted waves!
Nothing remotely resembling a gigantic narwhale, or an underwater islet, or a derelict shipwreck, or a runaway reef, or anything the least bit unearthly!
So the reaction set in.
At first, discouragement took hold of people's minds, opening the door to disbelief.
A new feeling appeared on board, made up of three-tenths shame and seven-tenths fury.
The crew called themselves out-and-out fools for being hoodwinked by a fairy tale, then grew steadily more furious!
中文译文：
三个月来，林肯号跑遍了太平洋北部所有的海面，
有时向着看到的鲸鱼冲去，有时忽然离开航线，有时突然掉转船头，有时一下子停住…
它不惜弄坏机器，不惜浪费动力，
从日本海岸到美洲海岸，没有一处不曾搜索过。
但是，什么也没有看见！看见的只是那浩瀚无边的大海！
至于什么巨大的独角鲸、潜在水中的海岛，沉没的破船、飞走的暗礁，以及什么神秘的东西，却都没有看见！
因此，反响发生了。
首先是人心失望，给怀疑的心理打开一个缺口。
船上产生了另一种情绪，造成这情绪的因素是三分羞愧，七分恼怒。
死盯住一个空想，自然是愚蠢,但更多的是恼怒！
重点词汇：
1、abruptly [ə'brʌptli] adv. 突然地；唐突地
同义词：
r. dead，short，suddenly
例：
1. Tornado attacks abruptly and fiercely, bringing in the strongest wind on the ground.
龙卷的袭击突然而猛烈，产生的风是地面上最强的。
2. When the star exhausts its usable fuel, it abruptly loses the constant struggle to hold up its own weight.
当恒星耗尽了可使用的燃料时，它会突然失去用以支撑它本身重量的惯有力量。
2、 deserted [di'zə:tid]
adj. 荒芜的；被遗弃的
v. 遗弃（desert的过去式和过去分词）
例：
1. He drew her to him, and then all the caution of years deserted him.
他把她拉近身来，于是乎数十年来的一切谨慎都离开他了。
2. It was a deserted land two years ago, but now it is a sports stadium.
两年前，这里还是一块荒废的地，现在，它已经是一个露天体育馆了。
3、disbelief [,disbi'li:f] n. 怀疑，不信
同义词：
n. incredulity，mental rejection，skepticism，unbelief
反义词：
n. Belief
例：
1. He looked me up and down in disbelief.
他以怀疑的眼光上下打量我。
2. He listened in disbelief to this extraordinary story.
他满腹疑惑地听着这个离奇的故事。
4、reaction [ri'ækʃən] n. 反应，感应；反动，复古；反作用
同义词：
n. chemical reaction，response
例：
1. Her initial reaction was surprise.
她最初的反应是吃惊。
2. Well, you underestimated her reaction.
但你低估了她的反应。
我已加入“维权骑士”（rightknights.com）的版权保护计划。
