[al:新概念英语（三）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:Fully Insured] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:01.39]Lesson 43 [00:03.54]Fully insured [00:11.94]Who owned the pie dish and why? [00:17.58]Insurance companies are normally willing to insure anything. [00:22.07]Insuring public or private property is a standard practice in most countries in the world. [00:28.28]If, however, you were holding an open air garden party or a fete it would be equally possible to insure yourself in the event of bad weather. [00:38.48]Needless to say, the bigger the risk an insurance company takes, the higher the premium you will have to pay. [00:45.88]It is not uncommon to hear that a shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship. [00:53.09]But the claim made by a local authority to recover the cost of salvaging a sunken pie dish must surely be unique. [01:02.03]Admittedly it was an unusual pie dish, for it was eighteen feet long and six feet wide. [01:10.41]It had been purchased by a local authority so that an enormous pie could be baked for an annual fair. [01:17.39]The pie committee decided that the best way to transport the dish would be by canal so they insured it for the trip. [01:26.01]Shortly after it was launched, the pie committee went to a local inn to celebrate [01:32.29]At the same time, a number of teenagers climbed on to the dish and held a little party of their own. [01:39.62]Dancing proved to be more than the dish could bear, [01:43.20]for during the party it capsized and sank in seven feet of water. [01:49.22]The pie committee telephoned a local garage owner who arrived in a recovery truck to salvage the pie dish. [01:56.66]Shivering in their wet clothes, the teenagers looked on while three men dived repeatedly into the water to locate the dish. [02:06.21]They had little difficulty in finding it, but hauling it out of the water proved to be a serious problem. [02:13.86]The sides of the dish were so smooth that it was almost impossible to attach hawsers and chains to the rim without damaging it. [02:23.13]Eventually chains were fixed to one end of the dish and a powerful winch was put into operation. [02:30.00]The dish rose to the surface and was gently drawn towards the canal bank. [02:35.55]For one agonizing moment, the dish was perched precariously on the bank of the canal, [02:42.26]but it suddenly overbalanced and slid back into the water. [02:47.39]The men were now obliged to try once more. [02:50.76]This time they fixed heavy metal clamps to both sides of the dish so that they could fasten the chains. [02:58.24]The dish now had to be lifted vertically because one edge was resting against the side of the canal. [03:05.55]The winch was again put into operation and one of the men started up the truck. [03:11.38]Several minutes later, the dish was successfully hauled above the surface of the water. [03:17.66]Water streamed in torrents over its sides with such force that it set up a huge wave in the canal. [03:25.15]There was a danger that the wave would rebound off the other side of the bank and send the dish plunging into the water again. [03:33.66]By working at tremendous speed, the men managed to get the dish on to dry land before the wave returned.