2016年高考英语全国卷2 - 阅读理解D

A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.
一组新照片让一次失败的南极之旅重现生机。

Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding — undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism — if they had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck, by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.
弗兰克·赫利的照片如果是上周拍摄的话，肯定会非常出色——毫无疑问是一流的新闻摄影。事实上，这些照片拍摄于1914至1916年间，大部分拍摄于一次海难后，由一位对生存已不抱希望的摄影师拍摄。许多照片保存在冰冷的水下，受损的木船上的一只冰柜内。

The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.
这艘船名“持久号”，是一艘由挪威人建造的结实的小型三桅船，载着欧内斯特·沙克尔顿爵士、一小队海员及科学家组成的队伍，共27人，前往南极洲威德尔海的最南岸，然后沙克尔顿想用狗拉雪橇强行穿越南极洲。旅行的目的是要超越罗伯特·法尔肯·斯科特船长的成就。斯科特船长于1912年初到达南极，但和他的四名同伴死于返回途中。

As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story. The Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scott's last journey, completed as be lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.
正如作家卡罗琳·亚历山大在其有力且深入研究的故事中所阐明的那样，持久号探险在当时甚至是一种完全的商业尝试。斯科特的最后一次旅行，他躺在帐篷里死于寒冷和饥饿，引发了全世界的想象，为纪念他而拍摄的一部电影也吸引了大批观众。沙克尔顿曾是英国商船海军军官，1908年抵达过南极100英里以内，1914年出航前开始做生意，从电影和静态摄影中赚钱。弗兰克·赫利是一位自信而有天赋的澳大利亚摄影师，了解南极，他被雇来拍摄这些照片，其中大部分以前从未出版过。