[by:英语听力网|http://yingyu.chazidian.com||查字典英语网] [00:00.00]喜欢chazidian.com，就把chazidian.com复制到QQ个人资料中！Lesson 43 Fully insured [00:02.99]43 全保险 [00:05.98]Listen to the tape then answer the question below. [00:11.52]听录音,然后回答以下问题. [00:17.06]Who owned the pie dish and why? [00:21.98]馅饼盘子是谁的?为什么? [00:26.91]Insurance companies are normally willing to insure anything [00:30.03]保险公司一般说来愿意承保一切东西. [00:33.15]Insuring public or private property [00:35.38]承办公共财产或私人财产保险 [00:37.62]is a standard practice in most countries in the world [00:39.89]是世界上大部分国家的正常业务. [00:42.16]If,however,you were holding an open air garden party or a fete [00:45.35]如果你要举办一次露天游园会或盛宴, [00:48.54]it would be equally possible to insure yourself in the event of bad weather [00:51.71]为了避免碰上不好的天气而遭受损失也同样可以保险 [00:54.88]Needless to say,the bigger the risk an insurance company takes [00:57.86]不用说,保险公司承担风险越大, [01:00.84]the higher the premium you will have to pay. [01:02.97]付的保险费也就越高. [01:05.10]It is not uncommon to hear that [01:07.17]常常会听说 [01:09.25]a shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship [01:12.79]航运公司为打捞沉船而提出索赔 [01:16.33]But the claim made by a local authority [01:18.65]但某地当局 [01:20.98]to recover the cost of salvaging a sunken pie dish must surely be unique [01:24.75]为打捞一只焙制馅饼的盘子提出索赔,倒是件新鲜事儿 [01:28.53]Admittedly it was an unusual pie dish, [01:31.21]这个馅饼盘子确实少见, [01:33.88]for it was eighteen feet long and six feet wide [01:36.71]有18英尺长,6英尺宽. [01:39.53]It had been purchased by a local authority [01:41.81]某地方当局买下它 [01:44.10]so that an enormous pie could be baked for an annual fair [01:46.92]用来焙制一个巨大的馅饼为一年一度的交易会助兴 [01:49.74]The pie committee [01:51.73]馅饼委员会 [01:53.71]decided that the best way to transport the dish would be by canal [01:56.98]确认运输这只盘子的最佳方案是通过运河水运. [02:00.24]so they insured it for the trip. [02:02.27]于是,他们对这只盘子的运输安全投了保. [02:04.29]Shortly after it was launched, [02:06.28]盘子下水后不久 [02:08.26]the pie committee went to a local inn to celebrate [02:10.89]馅饼委员会成员们来到当地一家小酒店庆贺. [02:13.51]At the same time, [02:15.11]就在这个时候, [02:16.70]a number of teenagers climbed on to the dish [02:19.18]许多十几岁的孩子爬上盘子 [02:21.66]and held a little party of their own. [02:23.79]举行他们自己的集会. [02:25.92]Dancing proved to be more than the dish could bear, [02:28.49]他们跳起了舞,盘子难以承受. [02:31.07]for during the party it capsized and sank in seven feet of water. [02:34.45]舞会进行过程中,盘子倾覆,沉入了7英尺深的水中 [02:37.83]The pie committee telephoned a local garage owner [02:40.35]馅饼委员会给当地汽车修理库老板打电话, [02:42.87]who arrived in a recovery truck to salvage the pie dish. [02:45.75]他闻讯后开着一辆急修前来打捞盘子. [02:48.62]Shivering in their wet clothes,the teenagers looked on [02:51.65]那些孩子们穿着湿衣服哆嗦, [02:54.68]while three men dived repeatedly into the water to locate the dish [02:57.95]看着3个工人轮番潜入水中以确定盘子的位置. [03:01.21]They had little difficulty infinding it, [03:03.44]他们没费多大事儿就找到了盘子, [03:05.68]but hauling it out of the water proved to be a serious problem [03:08.71]可是把盘子捞出却是一个很大的难题. [03:11.74]The sides of the dish were so smooth [03:13.96]盘子四边十分光滑, [03:16.18]that it was almost impossible to attach hawsers and chains to the rim [03:19.46]人们很难在盘边拴上绳索或链条 [03:22.74]without damaging it. [03:24.41]而同时又不损坏它. [03:26.08]Eventually chains were fixed to one end of the dish [03:28.67]不过他们终于将链条固定在盘子的一端, [03:31.25]and a powerful winch was put into operation [03:33.52]一台大功率的绞车开动起来. [03:35.80]The dish rose to the surface and was gently drawn towards the canal bank [03:39.27]盘子慢慢浮出水面,被轻轻地拽向运河岸边 [03:42.75]For one agonizing moment, [03:44.63]在令人忐忑不安的瞬间, [03:46.51]the dish was perched precariously on the bank of the canal, [03:49.59]盘子晃晃悠悠地上了岸,