TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 35

THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 35 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 35 Next day the mast-steps clear and everything in readiness we started to get the two topmasts aboard. The maintopmast was over thirty feet in length the foretopmast nearly thirty and it was of these that I intended making the shears. It was puzzling work. Fastening one end of a heavy tackle to the windlass and with the other end fast to the butt of the foretopmast I began to heave. Maud held the turn on the windlass and coiled down the slack. We were astonished at the ease with which the spar was lifted. It was an improved crank windlass and the purchase it gave was enormous. Of course what it gave us in power we paid for in distance as many times as it doubled my strength that many times was doubled the length of rope I heaved in. The tackle dragged heavily across the rail increasing its drag as the spar arose more and more out of the water and the exertion on the windlass grew severe. But when the butt of the topmast was level with the rail everything came to a standstill. I might have known it I said impatiently. Now we have to do it all over again. Why not fasten the tackle part way down the mast Maud suggested. It s what I should have done at first I answered hugely disgusted with myself. Slipping off a turn I lowered the mast back into the water and fastened the tackle a third of the way down from the butt. In an hour what of this and of rests between the heaving I had hoisted it to the point where I could hoist no more. Eight feet of the butt was above the rail and I was as far away as ever from getting the spar on board. I sat down and pondered the problem. It did not take long. I sprang jubilantly to my feet. Now I have it I cried. I ought to make the tackle fast at the point of balance. And what we learn of this will serve us with everything else we have to hoist aboard. Once again I undid all my work by lowering the mast into the water. But I miscalculated the point of balance so that when I heaved the top of the mast .

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