泰坦尼克号午餐菜单8.8万美元被拍卖

时间：2015-10-18 05:54:12

（单词翻译:单击）

The Titanic's last lunch menu, saved by a first-class passenger who climbed aboard a lifeboat whose crew was said to have been bribed1 to row away instead of rescue more people, sold at auction2 for $88,000 on Wednesday.

泰坦尼克号“最后的午餐”菜单上周三以8.8万美元的价格被拍卖。这份菜单是一位登上救生艇的头等舱乘客保留下来的，据说该救生艇的船员收受贿赂，被要求驶离沉船，而不再救更多人。

 
The online New York auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs offered the menu and two other previously3 unknown artifacts from Lifeboat 1.
 
Abraham Lincoln Salomon was among a handful of first-class passengers who boarded the lifeboat, dubbed4 the Money Boat or Millionaire's Boat by the press because of unfounded rumors5 one of them bribed seven crew members to quickly row the boat away from the sinking ocean liner.
 
The menu, which lists corned beef, dumplings and other savory6 items, is signed on the back in pencil by another first-class passenger, Isaac Gerald Frauenthal, who escaped on another lifeboat. It's believed the two men lunched together that fateful day in 1912.
 
Salomon also took away a printed ticket from the Titanic's opulent Turkish baths, which recorded a person's weight when seated in a specially7 designed upholstered lounge chair. The ticket bears the names of three of the five other first-class passengers with him on Lifeboat 1. One of four weighing chair tickets known to exist, it sold for $11,000.
 
A letter written by Mabel Francatelli to Salomon on New York's Plaza8 Hotel stationery9 six months after the disaster fetched $7,500. Francatelli had climbed into Lifeboat 1 with her employer, aristocratic fashion designer Lucy Duff-Gordon and her Scottish husband, Lord Cosmo Duff-Gordon, who was rumored10 to have bribed the crew to row them to safety in the boat, which had a capacity of 40.

分享到：


点击收听单词发音收听单词发音  

1 bribed 1382e59252debbc5bd32a2d1f691bd0f     
v.贿赂( bribe的过去式和过去分词 )；向（某人）行贿，贿赂
参考例句：
  • They bribed him with costly presents. 他们用贵重的礼物贿赂他。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • He bribed himself onto the committee. 他暗通关节，钻营投机挤进了委员会。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 auction 3uVzy     
n.拍卖；拍卖会；vt.拍卖
参考例句：
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
3 previously bkzzzC     
adv.以前，先前（地）
参考例句：
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。
4 dubbed dubbed     
v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制
参考例句：
  • Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
  • Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 rumors 2170bcd55c0e3844ecb4ef13fef29b01     
n.传闻( rumor的名词复数 )；[古]名誉；咕哝；[古]喧嚷v.传闻( rumor的第三人称单数 )；[古]名誉；咕哝；[古]喧嚷
参考例句：
  • Rumors have it that the school was burned down. 有谣言说学校给烧掉了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Rumors of a revolt were afloat. 叛变的谣言四起。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 savory UC9zT     
adj.风味极佳的，可口的，味香的
参考例句：
  • She placed a huge dish before him of savory steaming meat.她将一大盘热气腾腾、美味可口的肉放在他面前。
  • He doesn't have a very savory reputation.他的名誉不太好。
7 specially Hviwq     
adv.特定地；特殊地；明确地
参考例句：
  • They are specially packaged so that they stack easily.它们经过特别包装以便于堆放。
  • The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings.这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。
8 plaza v2yzD     
n.广场，市场
参考例句：
  • They designated the new shopping centre York Plaza.他们给这个新购物中心定名为约克购物中心。
  • The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen.这个广场上布满了便衣警察。
9 stationery ku6wb     
n.文具；(配套的)信笺信封
参考例句：
  • She works in the stationery department of a big store.她在一家大商店的文具部工作。
  • There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.文具一多，心里自会觉得踏实。
10 rumored 08cff0ed52506f6d38c3eaeae1b51033     
adj.传说的，谣传的v.传闻( rumor的过去式和过去分词 )；[古]名誉；咕哝；[古]喧嚷
参考例句：
  • It is rumored that he cheats on his wife. 据传他对他老婆不忠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • It was rumored that the white officer had been a Swede. 传说那个白人军官是个瑞典人。 来自辞典例句

©2005-2010英文阅读网