Day 8 阅读范围 (Part 1: Chapter 15 & Chapter 16)
问题
1. On the next day, November 9, Arronax wakes after a long and peaceful sleep. He goes to the saloon but cannot find Nemo. Where does Nemo go?
2. Nemo leads the way, indicating where the men should go. After about an hour and a half away from the Nautilus, the men begin journeying down a slope, going ever deeper into the ocean. They keep walking until an “obscure mass” appears in the distance. What’s the “obscure mass”?
翻译
1. What became of the whales in that time? Doubtless they went beneath the icebergs, seeking more practicable seas.
2. We were prisoners to the iceberg. I watched the captain. His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.
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:
Nemo claimed that he was happy to explain everything about how the vessel worked to Arronax, but it also seems as if he is deliberately keeping much of the vessel’s operations mysterious. Indeed, maintaining this level of obscurity helps Nemo retain power over the captives.
Nemo appears to treat the ocean as a kind of playground where he and the members of his crew are the only humans around. Although on one level this could be seen as a marker of ultimate freedom, it is also a profoundly isolated mode of existence. The novel raises the question, then, as to whether freedom is worth it when bought at such a price.
Again, there is a contrast between the clunky, rather comical-seeming outfits that Nemo gives the men to wear and the feeling of freedom that accompanies swimming in them. This reiterates the idea that human technologies—as clumsy and imperfect as they can be—can facilitate beautiful and harmonious interactions with nature.
