新概念英语第三册 less43_new

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[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,