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古德明英语军事小故事:蝙蝠计划 (中英对照)

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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。

蝙蝠计划

a pennsylvanian dentist was driving home in december 1941 when he heard about the pearl harbor attack. he had an idea, and sent it to president roosevelt, who agreed to give it a shot.

the idea was simple: hundreds of thousands of bats would be captured and stored, asleep, in freezers. a one-ounce bomb would be attached to each one's chest. the bats were to be dropped from a plane over japan in containers that would open at 1,000 feet. startled, the bats would head for the nearest cracks in buildings and chew off the bombs, which would explode.

early testing at an army air force base had mixed results. some bats slept through free fall and dropped like rocks; others escaped and set the entire base on fire. the project came to a halt in 1944, when the atomic bomb was near completion.

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