誰是 James Cameron？如果你看過電影阿凡達、鐵達尼號…
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17399978
＊新聞標題
James Cameron gets ready to dive to the Mariana Trench
金獎導演James Cameron準備好要潛到馬里亞納海溝
＊標題解說
‧ James Cameron：詹姆斯柯麥隆，導過鐵達尼號，阿凡達
‧ James Cameron gets ready to do something：準備好要做某事還沒做，get加了「s」因為動詞前的主詞 James Cameron 是第三人稱單數
‧ dive to 某處：潛水到某處（動詞）
‧ Mariana Trench：馬里亞納海溝，目前所知地球最深之海溝，即近關島之馬利亞納群島東方的海底
＊內文解析
■ 好萊塢導演James Cameron 可能就要接近實現潛到地球最深處的計畫了。
Hollywood director James Cameron may be close to making a dive to the deepest place on Earth.
‧ be close to doing something：很接近做某事的情況
（close to X= 接近 X 的狀態，所以後接動名詞：making a dive）
close 當形容詞http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/close_3
2 close to something| close to doing something almost in a particular state;
likely to do something soon
We are close to signing the agreement.
‧ make a dive to do something：是快速的捕捉，快速做動作（動詞片語）
這個片語用到 dive 跟剛好潛水有關，很貼切
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/dive_2
make a dive (for something) 片語
to suddenly move or jump forward to do something or reach somebody/something
The goalkeeper made a dive for the ball.
■ 他計畫以一人潛艇潛到西太平洋 11 公里（七英里）以下的馬里亞納海溝底。
In a one-man submarine, he plans to dive 11km (seven miles) down beneath the waves to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, in the western Pacific.
► 簡化來說：
In this submarine, he plans to do this.
submarine：潛水艇(名詞)
■ 到目前為止在那裡只有一次由人操作的潛水行動，而那是發生在半個世紀前
There has only ever been one manned dive there, and that was half a century ago.
► 簡化來看：
There has only ever been one X there, and that was half a century ago.
There has ever been one X：現在完成式，到目前為止，只有一次某事發生
‧ man：當動詞時，意思是「有人管理」
‧ manned：（過去分詞當形容詞）需要人來控制的，由人駕駛的
‧ manned dive：由人駕駛的潛水行動
■ 只能裝載一人名為深海挑戰者號的原型潛艇， 他計畫進行50 年來首次由人操作的潛入海溝任務。
In a prototype submarine, called the Deepsea Challenger, that fits just one person, he plans to make the first manned mission to the bottom of the trench for 50 years.
► 簡化來看：In X, he plans to make the first mission to the bottom of
the trench for 50 years.
X=a prototype submarine 在潛水艇原形
that fits just one person (that 子句說明 a prototype submarine)
逗號隔開的內容可以暫時不看「called the Deepsea Challenger」
（說明潛艇的名字是深海挑戰者）
The first manned mission to the bottom of the trench
第一個由人操作潛入海溝底部的任務
■ 他說他有這個想法是他在用潛水器拍攝一部紀錄片時想到的，這紀錄片是拍攝沈在 4 800 公尺 （17，500 英尺） 下的德國俾斯麥（the Bismarck）戰艦殘骸。
He says he came up with the idea while he was using submersibles to film a documentary on the wreck of the Bismarck, a German battleship that lies 4,800m (17,500ft) underwater.
► 簡化來看：He came up with the idea while he was doing this.
film a documentary on X= 拍攝有關X 的紀錄片
come up with something：找到某物(動詞片語) http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/come+up+with#come_1__492
[no passive] to find or produce an answer, a sum of money, etc
She came up with a new idea for increasing sales.
‧ submersible：潛水物(名詞) 比起潛水艇，submersible待在水裡的時間短
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/submersible_2
a submarine (= a ship that can travel underwater) that goes underwater for short periods
‧ wreck of the Bismarck：俾斯麥戰艦殘骸
‧ wreck：失事的船骸 = shipwreck（名詞）http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/wreck
a ship that has sunk or that has been very badly damaged
‧ battleship：戰艦（名詞）
‧ underwater：在水底（副詞）
■ 「我開始想要如何才能深入一點，如何探入到整個海洋的深度-那就像是從工程角度來說一種聖杯的追尋」，他告訴 BBC 新聞記者。
"I started to think about what would it take to go deeper, what would it take to go to full ocean depth - that was kind of the holy grail from an engineering standpoint," he told BBC News.
► 簡化來看：I started to think about X, Y --
X=What would it take to go deeper（正確文法應是 what it would take to
go deeper, 但口語常常會顛倒成 what would it take…）
Y=What would it take to go to full ocean depth（正確文法應是 what it
would take to go …, 但口語常常會顛倒成 what would it take…）
‧ Holy grail：耶穌死前用過的聖杯，成為人們渴望得到的一種聖物
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/grail
1 [singular]the cup or bowl believed to have been used by Jesus Christ
before he died, that became a holy thing that people wanted to find
＊字彙整理
讀這則新聞，看導演準備實現夢想的熱情，我們也趁機學點談潛水的用語
‧ 停靠在港口：dock at the port（動詞片語）
‧ 海溝：trench（名詞）
‧ 潛水：dive（動詞）
‧ 潛水艇：submarine（名詞）
‧ 原型：prototype（名詞）
‧ 潛水器：submersible 比 submarine 小
‧ 失事的船骸：wreck = shipwreck（名詞）
‧ 戰艦：battleship（名詞）
‧ 聖杯：grail（名詞）= the holy grail
‧ 潛到地球最深處：make a dive to the deepest place on Earth
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