英语听书《海底两万里》第317期第23章 珊瑚王国(14)
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ON JANUARY 28, in latitude1 9 degrees 4' north, when the Nautilus returned at noon to the surface of the sea, it lay in sight of land some eight miles to the west. 1月28日正午，当诺第留斯号浮上水面来的时候，它在北纬9度4分，望见西边八海里远有一块陆地。
Right off, I observed a cluster of mountains about 2,000 feet high, whose shapes were very whimsically
sculpted2. 我首先注意一群山岭，这群山岭约二千英尺高，山形起伏，很不整齐。
After our position fix, I reentered the lounge, and when our bearings were reported on the chart, 测定了这陆地的方位后，我回到客厅中，把测好的经纬度跟地图一对时，
I saw that we were off the island of Ceylon, that pearl
dangling3 from the lower
lobe4 of the Indian peninsula. 我发现我们是在锡兰岛面前了，它是挂在印度半岛下端的一颗宝珠。
I went looking in the library for a book about this island, one of the most fertile in the world. 我到图书室去找一部关于这座岛的著作，它是地球上的岛屿中最富饶的一个岛。
Sure enough, I found a volume entitled Ceylon and the Singhalese by H. C. Sirr, Esq. 我正好找到西尔所写、题名为《锡兰和锡兰人》的一部书。
Reentering the lounge, I first
noted5 the bearings of Ceylon, on which
antiquity6 lavished7 so many different names. 回到客厅中来，我首先记下锡兰的方位，并且知道古时候这岛有各种不同的名称。
It was located between latitude 5 degrees 55' and 9 degrees 49' north, and between
longitude8 79 degrees 42' and 82 degrees 4' east of the
meridian9 of Greenwich; 它的位置是在北纬5度55分和9度49分2red，东经79度42分和82度4分之间，
its length is 275 miles; its maximum width, 150 miles; its
circumference10, 900 miles; “岛长二百七十五英里，最宽的地方一瓦五十英里，周围900英里，
its surface area, 24,448 square miles, in other words, a little smaller than that of Ireland. 面积二万四千四百四十八平方英里，就是说，比爱尔兰岛面积小一些尼摩船长和他的副手这时候进来了。
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