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THE POLITY OF A BATTLESHIP
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Among the many interesting features of life at sea, few afford studies more fruitful in valuable thought than the internal economy of that latest development of human ingenuity—a modern battleship. It is not by any means easy for a visitor from the shore, upon coming alongside one of these gigantic vessels1, to realise its bulk; the first effect is one of disappointment. Everything on board is upon a scale so massive, while the limpid2 space whereon she floats is so capacious that the mind refuses to take in her majestic3 proportions. And a hurried scamper4 around the various points of chief interest on board leaves the mind like a palimpsest where one impression is superimposed upon another so swiftly that the general effect is but a blur5 and no detail is clear. Besides, in such a flying visit the guide naturally makes the most of those wonders with which he himself is associated in his official capacity, and thus the visitor is apt to get a very one-sided view of things. Again, in the course of a hurried visit in harbour the mind gets so clogged6 with wonders of machinery7 and design, that the human side, always apt to keep itself in the background, receives no portion of that attention which is its due. From all of which causes it naturally follows that the only way in which to obtain anything[277] like a comprehensive notion of the polity of a battleship is to spend at least a month on board, both at sea and in harbour, and waste no opportunity of observation of every part of the ship’s daily life that may be presented. Such opportunities, naturally, fall to the lot of but few outside the Service, and from the well-known modesty9 of sailors, it is next to hopeless to expect them to enlighten the public upon the most interesting details of their daily lives.
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1 vessels | |
n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人 | |
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3 majestic | |
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4 scamper | |
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5 blur | |
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11 draught | |
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13 armour | |
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14 cannon | |
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15 torpedo | |
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16 cosmos | |
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18 grandeur | |
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19 sentry | |
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20 marine | |
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21 inviting | |
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22 relaxation | |
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23 spacious | |
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24 adroitly | |
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25 naval | |
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26 tampered | |
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29 hull | |
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34 steadily | |
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37 strictly | |
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38 bugle | |
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41 disappearance | |
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42 warship | |
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43 belongings | |
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45 payable | |
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48 overhaul | |
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49 virtue | |
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51 lethal | |
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