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2024年励志_中学生励志英语演讲稿励志_中学生励志英语演讲稿1　　One day in 1819, 3,000 miles off the coast of Chile, in one of th

2024年励志_中学生励志英语演讲稿 励志_中学生励志英语演讲稿1 One day in 1819, 3,000 miles off the coast of Chile, in one of the most remote regions of the Pacific Ocean, 20 American sailors watched their ship flood with seawater. They'd been struck by asperm whale, which had ripped acatastrophic hole in the ship's hull. As their ship began to sink beneath the swells, the men huddled together in three small whaleboats. These men were 10,000 miles from home, more than 1,000 miles from the nearest scrap of land. In their small boats, they carried only rudimentary navigational equipment and limited supplies of food and water. These were the men of the whaleship Essex, whose story would later inspire parts of “Moby Dick.” Even in today's world, their situation would be really dire, but think about how much worse it would 15 第页 共页