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英语翻译7-CWhen she looked ahead,Florence Chadwick saw nothing b

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英语翻译
7-C
When she looked ahead,Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog.Her body was numb .She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.Already she was the English Channel in both directions.Now ,at age 34,her goal was to become the first woman to swim Catalina Island to the California coast.
On the fourth of July morning in 1952,the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was so dense that she could hardly see her support boats.Sharks cruised toward her lone figure,only to be driven away by rifle shots.Against the frigid grip of the sea,she struggled on-hour after hour-while millions watched on national television.
Alongside Florence in one of the boats,her nother and her trainer offered encouragement.They told her it wasn’t much farther.But all she could see was fog.They urged her not to quit.She never had…until then.With only a half mile to go ,she asked to be pulled out .
Still thawing her chilled body several hours later,she told a reporter,“Look,I’m not excusing myself,but if I could have seen hand I might have made it .”It was not tiredness or even the cold water that defeated her .It was the fog.She was unable to see her goal.
Two months later,she tried again.This time,despite the same dense fog,she swam with her faith intact and her goal clearly pictured in her mind.She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land and this time she nade it!Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the catalina Channel,eclipsing th men’s record by two hours!
本人分数只有这些了,哥哥姐姐,
人工翻译,原文的细节没有遗漏,也符合汉语习惯.
有几个地方英文原文有拼写可能错误.比如倒数第二段,hand 若为land 可能跟下文意思更符合.
弗罗伦斯•查德维克抬眼望去,她除了一堵浓厚的雾墙之外什么也看不到.游了差不多十六个小时之后,她的身体已经渐渐没有知觉.她已经从两头横渡了英吉利海峡,现在,34岁的她要从卡塔琳娜群岛游到加利福尼亚海岸.
1952年七月四日的早晨,大海像是冰冻的游泳池,浓雾中她几乎不能看到自己的支援船.鲨鱼在她的孤影边徘徊,只能被枪声驱走.在数百万电视观众的注视下,她在大海冰冷的怀抱中挣扎了一个又一个钟头.
在弗罗伦斯身旁的一艘支援船内,她的妈妈和教练不断给她鼓劲.他们告诉她终点就在不远处.但她目力所及,唯有大雾而已.他们鼓励她别放弃.她也没有放弃……直到还剩下半英里的地方,她要求把自己拉上船.
数个小时后,她冰冷的身体还没暖和过来,她对记者说,“听着,我不是在找借口,但如果能看到终点的陆地,我或许能完成.”不是疲劳,甚至不是寒冷击败了她,而是大雾.她无法看到终点.
两个月后,她又试了一次.这回,尽管大雾仍然很浓,她却怀着一往无前的信念游着,她脑海中目标很清晰,她知道就在这大雾后的某处就是陆地.这使得弗罗伦斯成为了游泳横渡卡塔琳娜海峡的第一位女性,她比男子记录还快了两个小时,让他们黯然失色.
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