14-07-09 A sailor was the only survivor of the shipwreck. He had to stay on a desert island for three years. One day he was very pleased to find a ship anchored in the day. When a small boat came ashore, an officer handed him a bunch of newspaper and said, T...

14-06-20 From time to time we landed at various islands, where we sold or exchanged our merchandise（商品，货物） , and one day, when the wind dropped suddenly, we found ourselves becalmed（平静的） close to a small island like a green meadow, which only ros...

14-05-22 Marzavan was rejoiced, and set out at once for Prince Camaralzaman's residence. The ship on which he embarked had a prosperous voyage till she got within sight of the capital of King Schahzaman, but when just about to enter the harbour she suddenly...

14-05-14 May it please your Majesty, I had gone to the slave market to buy myself a cook. While there I heard a slave being offered for 4,000 pieces. Asking to see her, I found she was of incomparable beauty, and was being sold by Noureddin, the son of your...

14-02-20 美国海军打算2013年夏天首次在军舰上部署激光炮，并于2年之内对磁轨炮进行初步测试。这些未来范十足的装备颇有电影《星球大战》的风格。 Some of the Navy's futuristic weapons sound like something out of Star Wars, with lasers designed to shoot down aerial dr...

14-01-10 The US Coast Guard was dispatching a special ice-breaking cutter to help free two ships lodged in the Antarctic, officials announced Saturday. 美国海岸警卫队应澳大利亚海事安全局请求，派出北极星号破冰船前往救援被困南极的中俄船只。 The Chinese vessel...

13-11-13 Several international businessmen were on a conference cruise when the ship began to sink. Go and tell those fellows to put on life jackets and jump overboard, the captain directed his first mate. A few minutes later the first mate returned. Those g...

13-09-17 Engineers in Italy have succeeded in setting the cruise ship Costa Concordia upright, 20 months after it ran aground off the island of Giglio. 意大利的工程师们成功将柯斯达康柯达号游艇扶正，此时它已在吉廖岛海岸搁浅20个月。 They said that the unpreced...

13-05-08 At least four people have died and several more are missing after a container ship crashed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa. 意大利热那亚港一艘集装箱运货船撞上一座控制塔，至少四人死亡、多人失踪。 A search and rescue operation was un...

13-03-01 Australian mining entrepreneur Clive Palmer on Tuesday unveiled blueprints for Titanic II, a modern replica of the doomed ocean liner, although he stopped short of calling the vessel unsinkable. 澳大利亚矿业企业家克莱夫帕尔默周二公布了泰坦尼克二号的...