双语新闻：库克船长的奋进号残骸被发现
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青岛希尼尔翻译公司（www.sinosenior.com）2016年5月4日了解到：(CNN)Researchers
believe they have found the wreckage of the HMS Endeavour, vessel of
legendary British explorer, James Cook.
(CNN)研究人员相信，他们发现了传奇的英国探险家詹姆斯.库克的爱船“奋进号”的残骸。
Cook commanded the ship from 1768 to 1771 on his famous voyage mapping
the uncharted waters of the south Pacific Ocean, but for years its
whereabouts have remained a mystery.
1768到1771年，库克船长驾驶着这艘船进行了著名的南太平洋之旅，以探索未知的水域。然而，多少年来奋进号的下落仍是一个谜。
After exploring far-flung lands the boat passed through a number of
different hands before it was renamed the Lord Sandwich and used in
America’s revolutionary war.
在探索这边广袤的土地之后，奋进号被多次转手，最后被更名为“三明治爵士”，后来又被用于美国革命战争。
"Lord Sandwich was the first lord of the admiralty at the time so the
name makes sense ." Dr Kathy Abbass, the executive director of Rhode
Island Marine Archaeology Project, a not-for-profit organization set up
in 1992 set up to study the area’s maritime history, told CNN.
罗得岛海洋考古项目是1992年成立的一个非营利性组织，专门研究该区域的海事历史。其执行董事凯茜阿巴斯博士告诉CNN，“三明治勋爵是彼时英国的第一位海军大臣，所以这个名字也在情理之中。”
"We know from its size, dimension and these records that the Sandwich
was the Endeavour."
“从其大小、尺寸和其它记录看来，这个三明治号正是库克船长的奋进号。”
Now the Rhode Island Marine Archeology Project (RIMP) says it has
managed to identify the wreckage of the Lord Sandwich in Newport harbor,
off the state of Rhode Island.
罗得岛海洋考古项目表示，其正在设法鉴别这些在罗得岛州纽波特港的三明治爵士的残骸。
The organization says the ship was scuttled there by British forces in
the lead up to the 1778 Battle of Rhode Island.
项目组称，1778年，三明治爵士被英国军队派遣到这里为罗得岛战役作准备。
"The American army was assembled on the mainland and the French sent a
fleet to help," says Abbass. "The British knew they were at great risk
so they ordered 13 ships out to be scuttled in a line to blockade the
city. They were sunk in fairly shallow waters."
阿巴斯博士称，“美国军队在大陆上集结，法国也派来一支舰队协助袭击纽波特港，英国受到了很大的威胁，所以他们派出了13艘船，列队堵在港口。由于水相对较浅，它们被击沉在这里了。”
They now believe this particular piece of history lies on the seabed
alongside the 12 other vessels that made up the fleet.
现在他们相信，这艘在历史上举足轻重的船只，以及组成舰队的另外12艘船，一直躺在这个海底深处。
According to RIMP, the wreckages are spread across nine different sites,
and "one group of 5 ships includes the Lord Sandwich transport, formerly
Captain James Cook’s Endeavour."
据罗得岛海洋考古项目介绍，这些残骸分散在9个不同的区域，有“一处的5艘船里就有这个三明治爵士，前身即是詹姆斯.库克船长的奋进号。”
The group now plans a more detailed exploration of the site and "a more
intense study of each vessel’s structure and its related artifacts."
项目组现在计划对该处进行更为详细的勘探，同时对“每一艘船的结构以及相关的遗物进行更为深入的研究。”
One of the most famous ships in naval history, the HMS Endeavour was the
boat on which Captain James Cook achieved the first recorded European
contact with the east coast of Australia, Hawaii, and the first
circumnavigation of New Zealand.
作为海军历史上最赫赫有名的船只之一，詹姆斯.库克船长曾驾驶着“奋进号”，成为首批登陆澳洲东海岸和夏威夷群岛的欧洲人,也创下首次环绕新西兰航行的记录。
Cook also provided the first accurate map of the Pacific and is believed
to have shaped the world map more than any other explorer in history.
库克船长还绘制了太平洋区域的第一份精确的地图，且据称，其绘制的世界地图的规模是历史上任一其他探险家所不能及的。
来源:CNN
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