古德明英语军事小故事:豪 华 邮 轮 之 战 (中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事,古德明,香港英语教育作家,他开了一个《征服英语专栏》,在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事,用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。豪 华 邮 轮 之 战
at the outbreak of the first world war, both the british and german navies were in such skimpy shape that they decided to convert some of their superposh ocean liners into warships despite the liners' lack of range. the german cap trafalgar removed one of her great funnels and disguised herself as the british liner carmania so that she might get close to an enemy ship and attack it with short-range machine guns. by sheer coincidence the carmania disguised herself as the cap trafalgar. they made the alternations as they sailed on towards a destiny that must have seemed improbable: the two ships happened upon each other off the brazilian island of trindade.
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