NBC晚间新闻 如何抬起一艘邮轮

How to raise a cruise ship

如何抬起一艘邮轮。

Salvage¹ crews have worked 24 hours a day for a year in preparation of raising the Costa Concordia cruise ship. Nearly two years after the vessel²’s crash, how successful will the attempt be? NBC’s Michelle Kosinski reports.

打捞队已经每天24小时工作了整整一年准备抬起Costa Concordia邮轮。在这艘邮轮出事近两年以后，能不能成功抬起它呢？NBC的Michelle Kosinski报道。

Tomorrow in Italy, all that attempt one of the great feats³ of engineering in recent years when salvage crews try to move a disabled cruise ship more than three football fields long from its side to an upright position. The Costa Concordia has been slumped⁴ on the coast striking a wave 20 months ago. NBC's Michelle Kosinski is there tonight. Michelle?

reporter: Hi, Lester. This was the biggest cruise shipwreck⁵ ever. Now it's the largest salvage operation of its kind. Tonight crews are tightening⁷ 36 cables that will pull from the land around the bottom of the hull⁸ to the other side of the ship. Just after dawn, they suspect to start rolling this thing upright. Over the past year, the Concordia wreck⁶ has become the base of an engineering marvel⁹. The steep reef under water has been leveled with cement, a platform built ten-story high floats installed around the outside, cables extended down around the ship's belly¹⁰ to be pulled from machines on land. If that sounds like a tall order for a mega vessel that carries more than 4,000 people, today Italy's head of civil protection rolled out the probability of this actually working. Said 100%. Making this happen, the American salvage company Titan.

You know what? We've -- this has been the most engineered salvage ever accomplished¹¹, ever done. And, you know, I'm also very confident. But I'm not going to put a percentage on it. There is always a risk of failure, structural¹² failure. But it's probably going to be localized kinds of failures and not global kinds of failures, failures that would be catastrophic.

reporter: That slow nervous roll will happen at about ten feet an hour, taking possibly 12 hours. A small scale practice went well, moving the ship a few centimeters off the rocks.

Tomorrow will be the day.

reporter: The mayor himself helped rescue people that night after the crash that claimed 32 lives, including two Americans. Two victims have never been found. Once the ship is upright and stable, that search can continue. And next week, the trial begins of captain Frances Chess Schettino. You have to ask what is the worst case scenario¹³ here. Salvagers say because of all the shoring up they've done and built in a 100% redundancy in terms of the load the operation can handle, they don't think there is any chance the hull will break apart. To them it's maybe some cables will malfunction¹⁴, causing delays. Lester?

1 salvage   

v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救

参考例句：

• All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
• The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。

2 vessel   

n.船舶；容器，器皿；管，导管，血管

参考例句：

• The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
• You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。

3 feats   

功绩，伟业，技艺( feat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He used to astound his friends with feats of physical endurance. 过去，他表现出来的惊人耐力常让朋友们大吃一惊。
• His heroic feats made him a legend in his own time. 他的英雄业绩使他成了他那个时代的传奇人物。

4 slumped   

大幅度下降，暴跌( slump的过去式和过去分词 )； 沉重或突然地落下[倒下]

参考例句：

• Sales have slumped this year. 今年销售量锐减。
• The driver was slumped exhausted over the wheel. 司机伏在方向盘上，疲惫得睡着了。

5 shipwreck   

n.船舶失事，海难

参考例句：

• He walked away from the shipwreck.他船难中平安地脱险了。
• The shipwreck was a harrowing experience.那次船难是一个惨痛的经历。

6 wreck   

n.失事，遇难；沉船；vt.(船等)失事，遇难

参考例句：

• Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
• No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。

7 tightening   

上紧，固定，紧密

参考例句：

• Make sure the washer is firmly seated before tightening the pipe. 旋紧水管之前，检查一下洗衣机是否已牢牢地固定在底座上了。
• It needs tightening up a little. 它还需要再收紧些。

8 hull   

n.船身；(果、实等的)外壳；vt.去(谷物等)壳

参考例句：

• The outer surface of ship's hull is very hard.船体的外表面非常坚硬。
• The boat's hull has been staved in by the tremendous seas.小船壳让巨浪打穿了。

9 marvel   

vi.(at)惊叹vt.感到惊异；n.令人惊异的事

参考例句：

• The robot is a marvel of modern engineering.机器人是现代工程技术的奇迹。
• The operation was a marvel of medical skill.这次手术是医术上的一个奇迹。

10 belly   

n.肚子，腹部；(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分，膛

参考例句：

• The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
• His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。

11 accomplished   

adj.有才艺的；有造诣的；达到了的

参考例句：

• Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
• Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。

12 structural   

adj.构造的，组织的，建筑（用）的

参考例句：

• The storm caused no structural damage.风暴没有造成建筑结构方面的破坏。
• The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities.北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。

13 scenario   

n.剧本，脚本；概要

参考例句：

• But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
• This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。

14 malfunction   

vi.发生功能故障，发生故障，显示机能失常

参考例句：

• There must have been a computer malfunction.一定是出了电脑故障。
• Results have been delayed owing to a malfunction in the computer.由于电脑发生故障，计算结果推迟了。