译林版高中英语选择性必修第三册(UNIT THREE EXTENDED READING 全文翻译)

译林版高中英语教材适合高一学生精读，高三学生一轮复习可作为早晚读材料。

Unit 3 Back to the past

Extended reading

Read the article about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Hell comes to Pearl Harbor

地狱降临珍珠港

It was Sunday, December 7, 1941. As usual, the wake-up call came at 5:45 a.m. The men aboard the warship USS Arizona stretched and rubbed their eyes. Seaman Russell Warriner was awakened by Quartermaster Louis Conter. Russell made his bed and helped clean the huge, shared room. The men went to the washroom, dressed in their uniforms and sat down to breakfast. It looked like it would be a normal day on board the ship.

那是1941年12月7日，星期日。和往常一样，起床号在早上5点45分响起。亚利桑那号战列舰上的人们伸了个懒腰，揉了揉眼睛。海员拉塞尔·沃里纳海员被路易·孔泰军需官唤醒。拉塞尔整理了床铺，并帮助打扫了这个巨大的公共房间。人们去了洗手间，穿上了制服，坐下来吃早餐。看起来，这该是船上平常的一天。

But nobody ate their breakfast: at that moment, there was a huge crashing sound from above. The ship shook violently and the men looked at each other in horror. Above their heads, hundreds of Japanese planes circled like eagles. They were diving down to drop bombs on Pearl Harbor. The scream of their engines was deafening. As bombs thundered all around, clouds of black smoke rose into the sky and hung over the sea. Russell felt his blood freeze, but he quickly came to himself and rushed up to the deck. Moments later, a bomb hit the USS Arizona and Russell was thrown more than 100 meters across the ship. He suffered serious burns on his hands, arms and legs, and watched many of his friends die.

但没有人吃成他们的早餐：就在这时，上面传来了巨大的撞击声。船剧烈摇晃，人们惊恐地面面相觑。在他们的头顶上，数百架日本飞机像鹰一样盘旋。它们俯冲下来向珍珠港投下炸弹。它们引擎的尖叫声震耳欲聋。炸弹轰鸣四周，黑烟云升上天空，悬在海面上。拉塞尔感觉到自己的血液冻结了，但他很快就清醒过来，冲向甲板。片刻之后，一枚炸弹击中了亚利桑那号战列舰，拉塞尔被扔出了100多米，摔在船的另一头。他的手、胳膊和腿都被严重烧伤，目睹了许多朋友的死亡。

Louis, meanwhile, also standing on the deck, was lucky not to be thrown into the sea. With only minor injuries, he was able to help others who were severely burnt and in terrible pain. After receiving the order to abandon ship, Louis saved more men from the water, dragging them into the lifeboat. In the chaos and confusion after the attack, the US Navy sent a message to his family that Louis had been killed in the attack. Luckily, he was able to get in touch with them before the message arrived. Despite his remarkable actions, Louis did not think that he was a hero. “The heroes are the ones that gave their lives that day,” he said.

与此同时，路易也站在甲板上，很幸运没有被扔进海里。他只受了轻伤，能够帮助其他被严重烧伤和极度痛苦的人。在接到弃船命令后，路易从水中救起了更多人，将他们拖上了救生艇。在袭击后的混乱和困惑中，美国海军向他的家人发送了一条消息，称路易已在袭击中丧生。幸运的是，路易能够在消息到达之前与家人取得联系。尽管他的行为非常出色，但路易并不认为自己是英雄。“英雄们是那天献出生命的人，”他说。

Russell was saved from the water, but he was badly burnt, bleeding heavily. Fortunately, he was taken to hospital and survived. For many years, Russell refused to talk about what happened that morning, describing it simply as “hell”. His wife Elsa said, “When he opened up later on, he always mentioned the horror of it.” 

拉塞尔从水中获救，但他被严重烧伤，流血不止。幸运的是，他被送往医院并幸存下来。多年来，拉塞尔拒绝谈论那天早上发生的事情，简单地将其描述为 “地狱”。他的妻子埃尔莎说：“后来当他敞开了心扉，总是提起那件事有多恐怖。”

Louis and Russell would never forget the terrible scene of the attack, but they were fortunate enough to be among the few survivors from the Arizona. Nobody had expected the bombing. Japan had hatched a plot to launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, so the attack began without warning and without declaring war on the United States. The attack destroyed nearly 20 American ships and over 180 airplanes. In total, more than 2,000 American people were killed and over 1,000 others were wounded that day. More than 1,000 people aboard the Arizona lost their lives. Out of 37 sets of brothers, Russell and his brother were the only full pair to survive the attack. 

路易和拉塞尔永远不会忘记袭击的可怕场景，但他们很幸运地成为亚利桑那号为数不多的幸存者之一。没有人预料到会有爆炸。日本策划了对珍珠港发动突然袭击的阴谋，因此袭击在没有警告和向美国宣战的情况下开始。这次袭击摧毁了近20艘美国船只和180多架飞机。当天共有2,000多名美国人丧生，1,000多人受伤。亚利桑那号上有1,000多人丧生。在37对兄弟中，拉塞尔和他的兄弟是唯一在袭击中幸存下来的完整一对。

The surprise attack came as a great shock to the whole nation. The next day, President Roosevelt delivered his famous Pearl Harbor Speech, in which he described December 7 as “a date which will live in infamy” and asked that the US Congress declare war on Japan. In response to the attack and the president’s address, the United States joined the Second World War.

这次突然袭击对整个国家来说都是一个巨大的震惊。第二天，罗斯福总统发表了著名的珍珠港演讲，他在演讲中将12月7日描述为“一个永载耻辱的日子”并要求美国国会对日本宣战。作为对袭击和总统讲话的回应，美国加入了第二次世界大战。

Today, the USS Arizona lies where it sank: in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Its location is marked with a memorial shaped like a bridge, which crosses the ship’s sunken remains. Each year, more than two million people visit the memorial. They come to see the shadow of the ship at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, to learn about the attack, to show respect for those who had lost their lives in the attack and to pray for world peace. Although about eight decades has passed, the attack on Pearl Harbor, one of the darkest episodes in American history, will never be forgotten.

今天，美国亚利桑那号战列舰还在当年沉没的地方：在太平洋中央。它的位置有一座形状像桥的纪念碑，横跨沉船的残骸。每年有超过200万人参观纪念碑。他们来这里是为了看看珍珠港海底的船影，了解袭击的情况，向那些在袭击中丧生的人表示敬意，并为世界和平祈祷。尽管已经过去了大约八十年，但珍珠港袭击是美国历史上最黑暗的事件之一，永远不会被遗忘。