海底两万里（英文版）——床头灯英语学习读本Ⅴ

18世纪中叶，在海中航行的船只接二连三地遭到海怪袭击，造成船毁人亡的悲剧。大海之中变得危机四伏，一时之间人心惶惶。各国政府均派出军舰寻找海怪，维护航道安全，但都一无所获。法国生物学家阿隆纳斯教授应美国政府之邀，同仆人康塞尔一道加入搜捕海怪的探险队。他们在船上结识了号称“捕鲸人之王”的加拿大人尼德·兰德。不料，一行人出师未捷，已陷囹圄。教授乘坐的军舰在同海怪较量后被打得落荒而逃。教授、仆人和尼德·兰德掉入海中后被人救起，此时方才发现海怪原是一艘超级潜艇鹦鹉螺号，潜艇艇长自称尼摩艇长。 被人所俘，教授一行人不免惴惴不安，但尼摩艇长却因为钦佩教授的成就，将其待为上宾，后来甚至亲自带教授参观潜艇，将其构造、设计等机密和盘托出。虽然教授等人被软禁在潜艇上，却也凭借潜艇的先进装备大开眼界，加深了他们对海洋的认识。阿隆纳斯教授等人同尼摩艇长和他的乘员一道游历四海。他们去克利斯波岛海中森林狩猎，在太平洋最深处探奇览胜，到万尼科罗群岛附近寻找沉船。他们在通过托雷斯海峡的时候风险迭起，事故甚至夺取了尼摩艇长手下一名艇员的性命，使艇长痛苦不已。后来，艇长邀请教授等人一道，在海底的珊瑚墓地为自己死去的艇员举行了葬礼。 尼德·兰德一心想要逃走，但逃跑计划屡次受挫。他计划在托雷斯海峡附近的岛上打猎时逃离潜艇，不料在岛上遭到土著人攻击，被迫回到潜艇上，引来大批土著围攻潜艇。尼摩艇长镇定自若，凭借潜艇的先进装备，兵不血刃地击退了土著。 接下来的航行中，艇长同教授等人参观了珍珠海床，驾驶潜艇通过了苏伊土运河狭窄的水下通道，从红海直接来到加勒比海。这让教授等人对艇长的神通广大肃然起敬，也对海底煤矿的奇妙赞叹不已。随后，艇长又带教授水中访探，见识了消失的古城亚特兰蒂斯的神妙之处。尼摩艇长不顾尼德·兰德的不满，坚持要去南极。潜艇去的时候一路川砜，不料在归途中被冰山碰撞，岌岌可危。在此生死瞬间，尼摩艇长急中生智，想出了用锅炉加热冰层的办法，终于逃离绝境。其后，艇长似乎雄心受挫，潜艇漫无目的地在海中潜航。其间尼德·兰德多次策划逃走，但均未成功。 眼睁睁地看着又一名艇员在跟章鱼搏斗的时候死在了自己面前，尼摩艇长的怒火终于失去了控制。他轻而易举地将来犯的军舰击沉，舰上的全体乘员都葬身鱼腹。但此时的尼摩艇长受到良心的极大谴责，痛苦之下将潜艇驶入风暴中心，从此生死不明。教授等人抓住最后的机会侥幸逃生。 海底深处到底有些什么样的秘密?纵横四海，叱咤风云的尼摩艇长究竟何许人也?鹦鹉螺号为何如此神奇?……法国科幻小说家儒勒·凡尔纳的传世名篇——《海底两万里》带你一览海底的旖旎风光。你，准备好了吗?

CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

书摘
By the time I arrived back at the house, the sun had
completely gone down and night had settled upon the land. I was
troubled. Who was this man? Was he a crazy family member I had not
been told about? Immediately, I looked for Mrs. Grose, hoping she
could tell me who this person was. When I found her, she
immediately expressed how worried she had been about me, for I
had been out much later than usual. I suddenly lost the desire to
tell her what I had seen. I did not want to frighten her.
For the next three days, my worries increased. I could not
understand why that man had been there. And because I could not
explain it to myself, my fear grew larger than before. It was
possible that the servants might have been playing a trick on me.
But no one behaved unusually towards me. No laughing could be
heard and no strange looks were given.
Finally, I managed to get myself to believe that it was just
some impolite stranger who wanted to look at the old house. He
must have just climbed the tower without asking for permission.
Only the rudest people would behave in such a way. That then
explained the way that he had looked at me for so long. This
comforted me a little, for it would mean that he would probably
never come back again.
I decided to try to forget about the man by working harder on
the children's lessons. I truly enjoyed teaching them. I never
once felt tired of my job. Most teachers lose interest in their
students after just a short time. But I found them as charming as
always. Every class I would learn something new about each of my
beautiful, young students. I could not, however, learn why the boy
had been dismissed from his school. I decided that he had
probably done nothing wrong. It was likely that other children
had been jealous of his beauty and intelligence and then told lies
to the teacher about him. It was possible that the leader of the
school might have been jealous of him too. Young Miles was simply
too good for them.
And yet, Miles seemed so happy and sweet. I had never met
another child like him in all the days of my teaching. This made
me doubt the possibility that the other children had treated him
badly. Surely, he would have been a sadder child if they had.
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