The Blazing World

The Blazing World 炽热的世界

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Themain character, a young lady, is kidnapped by an a______1______ foreignmerchant and taken to sea. The merchant’s plan goes a______2______, however,when a storm forces his boat toward the North Pole and into “the Icy Sea.”While the merchant and the other men aboard the boat all f______3______ to death,the woman s______4______ because of “the light of her Beauty, the heat of herYouth, and Protection of the Gods”.

Theboat then leaves our world and enters the “Blazing World” – so named due to thev______5______ amount of blazing stars in the sky, which make night almost asbright as day itself. Combined with the observation that the Blazing World hasits own Sun and Moon, and it is clear that the young Lady has truly traveled toanother world!

Theyoung Lady encounters strange creatures — bear-men, fox-men, bird-men, even lice-men— who welcome her and c______6______ her to the Emperor of this Blazing World.She is r______7______ very nearly as a god, and becomes Empress, making r______8______changes to the society and scientific thinking of the world.

TheEmpress q______9______ the various natural science experts of the Blazing World.At last, the Boat still passing on, is forced into another World. Afterbecoming their empress, she takes it upon herself to bring her armies across theg______10______ in worlds and come to rescue her original home world.

【词汇注释】

kidnap  ['kɪdnæp]  v.劫持；绑架

merchant['mɜːtʃnt]n.商人；批发商

observation[.ɒbzə'veɪʃn]n.观察；观测

convey[kən'veɪ]v.表达；输送

emperor['emprə]n.皇帝；帝王

radical['rædɪkl]adj.根本的；彻底的

forced[fɔːst]adj.被迫的；不得已的

gap[ɡæp]n.间隙；缺口

【参考译文】

主人公是一位年轻的女士，她被一个多情的外国商人绑架并被带到海上。然而，商人的计划出了岔子，当暴风雨迫使他的船驶向北极，驶入“冰冷的海洋”后，商人和船上的其他男人都冻死了，而女人却因为“她美丽的光芒，她青春的热量和众神的保护”而活了下来。

然后船只离开了我们的世界，进入“炽热的世界”—之所以这样命名是因为天空中有大量炽热的星星，它们使夜晚几乎如同白昼一样明亮。再加上观察到炽热的世界有其自己的太阳和月亮，很明显这位年轻的女士真的到达了另一个世界！

年轻的女士遇到了奇怪的生物—熊人，狐狸人，鸟人，甚至虱子人—他们都欢迎她，并把她送到这个炽热世界的皇帝那儿。她几乎被尊崇为神，并且成了皇后，她使社会和他们对世界的科学思考发生了根本性的变化。

皇后向炽热世界的各自然科学的专家提问。最后，那条仍在前行的船被迫驶入了另一个世界。在成为他们的皇后之后，她亲自带领她的军队越过世界的鸿沟，前去拯救她原来的家园。

玛格丽特·卡文迪（著）