Day 7 阅读范围 (Part 1: Chapter 13 & Chapter 14)
问题
1. Why Is the Nautilus a perfect ship?
2. At five p.m., Ned and Conseil go to their cabin, and Arronax goes to his. Then, what does Arronax do?
翻译
1. Some of these masses showed green veins, as if long undulating lines had been traced with sulphate of copper; others resembled enormous amethysts with the light shining through them.
2. About ten miles south, a solitary island rose to a height of one hundred and four yards. We made for it, but carefully, for the sea might be strewn with banks.
要求:
1.尽量回答上面问题
2.思考:
Further reading to help you develop your understanding of these two chapters:
The phrase “almost infinite” is key, as it reveals how electricity is posited as being an almost magical force in this 19th-century context. Of course, to many living at the time Verne wrote the novel, electricity may indeed have appeared this way. In this sense, the novel captures how technology can seem larger-than-life and thus be interpreted in mythic terms.
Nemo obviously respects Arronax, and it appears that this respect is based on the two men’s shared love and appreciation of the ocean. Nemo is enthusiastic about supporting Arronax’s work seemingly because it is devoted to the part of existence that Nemo cares about the most: undersea life.
