瓦萨”号
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From the seventeenth-century empire of Sweden, the story of a galleon that sank at the start of her maiden voyage in 1628 must be one of the strangest tales of the sea. For nearly three and a half centuries she lay at the bottom of Stockholm harbour until her discovery in 1956. This was the Vasa, royal flagship of the great imperial fleet.
1628年，一艘大帆船在处女航时就沉没了，这个从17世纪瑞典帝国流传至今的故事，无疑是航海史上最离奇的事件之一。这艘大船在斯德哥尔摩港口的海底躺了将近3个半世纪之后，直到1956年才被发现。 这就是“瓦萨”号，帝国大舰队的皇家旗舰。
第2段
King Gustavus Adolphus, "The Northern Hurricane", then at the height of his military success in the Thirty Years' War, had dictated her measurements and armament. Triple gun-decks mounted sixty-four bronze cannon. She was intended to play a leading role in the growing might of Sweden.
当时，有“北方飓风”之称的国王古斯夫斯·阿道尔弗正处于“三十年战争”的军事鼎盛阶段。他钦定了这艘船的规模和武器配备。3层的火炮甲板上装着64门青铜加农炮，旨在于不断增强的瑞典威力中起主导作用。
第3段
As she was prepared for her maiden voyage on August 10, 1628, Stockholm was in a ferment. From the Skeppsbron and surrounding islands the people watched this thing of beauty begin to spread her sails and catch the wind. They had laboured for three years to produce this floating work of art; she was more richly carved and ornamented than any previous ship. The high stern castle was a riot of carved gods, demons, knights, kings, warriors, mermaids, cherubs; and zoomorphic animal shapes ablaze with red and gold and blue, symbols of courage, power, and cruelty, were portrayed to stir the imaginations of the superstitious sailors of the day.
1628年8月10日，在“瓦萨”号准备首航时，斯德哥尔摩全城欢腾。人们从斯开波斯布朗和周围的岛屿前来观看这艘杰作扬帆起航，乘风破浪。瑞典人辛辛苦苦干了3年才建成这件漂浮的工艺品，它比以往任何船只雕刻得都更加精美，都装饰得更富丽堂皇。在船尾高耸的船楼上，雕满了令人目不暇接的神仙、妖魔、骑士、国王、武士、美人鱼和小天使；为了激发当年迷信的水手们的想像，绘制了闪耀着红色、金色和蓝色的动物形象，以及代表着勇气、力量和残暴的图案。
第4段
Then the cannons of the anchored warships thundered a salute to which the Vasa fired in reply. As she emerged from her drifting cloud of gun smoke with the water churned to foam beneath her bow, her flags flying, pennants waving, sails filling in their breeze, and the red and gold of her super structure ablaze with colour, she presented a more majestic spectacle than Stockholmers had ever seen before. All gun-ports were open and the muzzles peeped wickedly from them.
这时，停泊在港口的其他战船向“瓦萨” 号鸣炮致礼，“瓦萨”号也鸣炮回礼。当“瓦萨” 号从弥漫的礼炮烟云中出现时，船头下浪花四溅，舰旗迎风招展，三角旗随风飘扬，微风鼓起风帆，金碧辉煌的船楼闪耀着灿烂的色彩。 “瓦萨”号展现的壮观景象是斯德哥尔摩人前所未见的。船身的炮眼大开，炮口虎视眈眈地向外窥视。
第5段
As the wind freshened there came a sudden squall and the ship made a strange movement, listing to port. The Ordnance Officer ordered all the port cannon to be heaved to starboard to counteract the list, but the steepening angle of the decks increased. Then the sound of rumbling thunder reached the watchers on the shore, as cargo, ballast, ammunition and 400 people went sliding and crashing down to the port side of the steeply listing ship. The lower gun-ports were now below water and the inrush sealed the ship's fate. In that first glorious hour, the mighty Vasa, which was intended to rule the Baltic, sank with all flags flying—in the harbour of her birth.
当风力增强时，突然刮来一阵大风，“瓦萨”号奇怪地摇晃了一下，便向左舷倾斜。炮长命令把左舷上所有大炮搬到右舷上来,以抵消船体的倾斜，但甲板倾斜程度不减反增。当货物、压舱物、弹药和 400名水手滑向严重倾斜的左舷时，岸上的观众听到了雷鸣般的轰响。下层炮眼已淹没在水里，涌进船舱的水流注定了“瓦萨”号的厄运。就这样，本想统治波罗的海的无敌战舰 “瓦萨”号，在它壮丽的起航时刻，船上飘扬的彩旗随着战舰一同沉没于所诞生的港口。
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