美文发布:奇速英语 发布时间:Nov 24, 2015 4:03:46 PM
Keep Your Goals in Sight莫让目标太遥远 Then she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours. 佛罗伦斯·查德成克向前方望去,除了绵延无尽的大雾,她什么也看不到。她一直在游泳,已经游了几乎 16个小时,身体都麻木了。 Already she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. Now, at age 34, her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast. 在那之前,她已经是第一位双向游过英吉利海峡的女性。现在,她已经34岁了,她的目标是要成为第一个从卡达琳纳岛游到加利福尼亚海岸的女性。 On that Fourth of July morning in 1952, the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was so dense she could hardly see her support boats. Sharks cruised toward her lonely figure, only to be driven away by rifle shots. Against the frigid grip of the sea, she struggled on ---hour after hour while millions watched on national television. 1952年 7月 4日的那个早晨,大海就像一个冰浴盆,雾是那么浓,她甚至连救援她的船只都看不到。鲨鱼游向她孤单的身躯,只能靠来复枪来击退。她迎向冰冷的海水,努力向前游,就这样一小时一小时过去了;无数观众则坐在电视机前观看这一情景。 Alongside Florence in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer offered encouragement. They told her it wasn't much farther. But all&n