第32课

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The salvage operation had been a complete failure.

打捞行动彻底失败了。

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The small ship, Elkor, which had been searching the Barents Sea for weeks, was on its way home.

“埃尔科”号这艘小船在巴伦支海域搜寻了几个星期后，正在返航的途中。

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A radio message from the mainland had been received by the ship's captain instructing him to give up the search.

船长收到了一份来自大陆的电报，指示他放弃搜寻。

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The captain knew that another attempt would be made later,

船长知道以后还会再进行一次尝试，

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for the sunken ship he was trying to find had been carrying a precious cargo of gold bullion.

因为他试图寻找的那艘沉船载有一批珍贵的金条。

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Despite the message, the captain of the Elkor decided to try once more.

尽管收到那份电报，“埃尔科”号的船长还是决定再试一次。

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The sea bed was scoured with powerful nets and there was tremendous excitement on board when a chest was raised from the bottom.

海底被强力拖网仔细搜寻，当一个箱子从海底被捞上来时，船上的人都非常兴奋。

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Though the crew were at first under the impression that the lost ship had been found,

虽然船员们最初以为找到了那艘失踪的船，

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the contents of the chest proved them wrong.

但箱子里的东西证明他们错了。

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What they had in fact found was a ship which had been sunk many years before.

事实上，他们找到的是一艘多年前就已经沉没的船。

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The chest contained the personal belongings of a seaman, Alan Fielding.

箱子里装着一个名叫艾伦·菲尔丁的海员的个人物品。

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There were books, clothing and photographs, together with letters which the seaman had once received from his wife.

里面有书、衣服和照片，还有海员以前从他妻子那里收到的信件。

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The captain of the Elkor ordered his men to salvage as much as possible from the wreck.

“埃尔科”号的船长命令他的船员尽可能多地从残骸中打捞物品。

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Nothing of value was found,

没找到什么有价值的东西，

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but the numerous items which were brought to the surface proved to be of great interest.

但打捞上来的许多物品却引起了人们极大的兴趣。

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From a heavy gun that was raised, the captain realized that the ship must have been a cruiser.

从打捞上来的一门重型火炮，船长意识到这艘船一定是一艘巡洋舰。

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In another chest which contained the belongings of a ship's officer,

在另一个箱子里，装着一名船上军官的物品，

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there was an unfinished letter which had been written on March 14th, 1943.

里面有一封写于1943年3月14日、尚未写完的信。

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The captain learnt from the letter that the name of the lost ship was the Karen.

船长从信中得知那艘失踪的船名叫“卡伦”号。

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The most valuable find of all was the ship's log book, parts of which it was still possible to read.

最有价值的发现是船上的航海日志，其中一部分仍然可以阅读。

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From this the captain was able to piece together all the information that had come to light.

从日志中，船长得以把所有已发现的信息拼凑起来。

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The Karen had been sailing in a convoy to Russia when she was torpedoed by an enemy submarine.

“卡伦”号当时正在驶往俄罗斯的护航船队中，结果被一艘敌方潜艇鱼雷击中。

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This was later confirmed by a naval official at the Ministry of Defence after the Elkor had returned home.

“埃尔科”号返回家园后，国防部的一名海军官员证实了这一点。

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All the items that were found were sent to the War Museum.

所有找到的物品都被送往战争博物馆。