Day 20 阅读范围 (Part 2: Chapter 16 & Chapter 17)
问题
1. The situation is terrifying, but having worked so hard already, the men are all determined to go down fighting. What do they do to melt the icebergs?
2. Arronax isn’t sure how he reaches the platform; he thinks Ned possibly carries him. The first words he says are in gratitude to Ned and Conseil. Ned says that he wants to use this moment of bonding for them to promise that they will escape together. What’s the promise?
翻译
1. We were prisoners to the iceberg. I watched the captain. His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.
2. My two companions were getting drunk with the fresh particles. The other unhappy men had been so long without food that they could not with impunity indulge in the simplest aliments that were given them.
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:
This nightmarish situation represents the very worst of what can happen on a submarine. Again, the fact that the characters end up in a situation of ultimate confinement shows how, for Nemo, the pursuit of freedom and the inevitability of constraint are bound up in each other.
This grim situation presents another philosophical dilemma: is it better to fight to the death even when one’s chances of success are very slim, or resign oneself to death and, in doing so, pass away in greater comfort? Such a question is related to many contemporary ethical dilemmas, such as conversations around assisted suicide.
