第八十九集《大航海时代》
The Olympic Adventures of the Fuwa Yachts Part One
—Darren it's time for bed
—You have classes tomorrow.
—But tomorrow is James'birthday, I want to finish this, as a birthday present for him
—Hurry up go to bed at once
—Mom
—Darren fell asleep What's this?
—Professor Professor What's this?
—I know everything because I'm a professor.
—And this is
—I know This is a boat!
—Everybody knows that But what kind is it, huh?
—It is It is, what on earth is this boat?
—And what do these ropes do what are the sticks and cloth for?
—This one is. That,that one
—The Professor doesn't know!
—This boat is a yacht!
—What? A yacht?
—Yes. Yes it is a yacht Sailing is an aquatic event.
—It's Chinese name is ’fan chuan’.
—It's wonderful!
—Awesome!
—I've got it. Sailing is a sport where the athletes race at high speed on yachts over a regulated course.
—Not bad in sailing Athletes mainly rely on the natural wind to sail
—Natural wind?
—Sailing originated in Holland.
—In ancient Holland People were quite familiar with traveling by sailboat over many different waterways for transportation and fishing
—In the early 15th century.
—In China there also appeared a kind of huge yacht
—Oh can you see that so many big yachts, three four no no no ten!
—Look They are sailing to us!
—Wow, It’s incredible! Such huge boats!
—Where, where does it come from?
—It's j-j-just like a big mountain
—Come. Let’s have a look! it's so big, beautiful,
—According to history, He's fleet had the biggest yacht
—It was 138 meters long and 56 meters wide It could carry 800 tons of goods
—So it was called the ‘Treasure Boat'
—Let’s set sail! Yes sir
—Grab it!
—Full speed ahead!
—During the period between 1405 to 1433, a Chinese  name Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty lead 27,000 people to sail the Atlantic Ocean
—Altogether They made seven journeys. good bye Zheng He
—In 1588 A.D. England was preparing to defend against he famous
—Spanish Armada Which had set sail with the hopes of conquering it and taking control of the Atlantic Ocean England was ready Fire Don't stop!
—Every cannon. Fire!
—We win! help, we're drowning
—Through the fierce fighting and terrible weather, the Spanish Armada was all but destroyed.
—But not one of the English ships had been sunk.

—From then on, Spain lost the position of dominance on the high seas  .
—With the development of the ship-building industry, the yacht lost its position of main transportation on the sea to motors.
—It became a popular sport
—In the 1st modern Olympic Games in 1896,
—Sailing was an official event of the games
—Aquatic events have always played an important part in the history of the Olympic Games
—Come on Let's show you what us Kaku got!
—Be careful. Today's weather is not so good!
—Who cares about the weather?
—I'm the king of the world. Mrs.Sea, I'm coming
—We are bugs!
—Oh no.Bengbeng and Tiaotiao are in trouble!

—Bengbeng! Tiaotiao!
—The rainstorm is coming.
—Leave the beach. Hurry!
—Because of the bad weather, the 1st Olympic Sailing competition had to be cancelled.
—It wasn't until the 2nd Olympic Games in Paris in 1900
—That sailing became a true competition in the Games
—This is just like, ‘Something unexpected may happen any time'
—Oh this sentence means. people usually cannot forecast disasters before they happen
—Ah!
—He hasn't finished yet!
—Awful. It's tomorrow..
—Did I finish it last night?
—Why I don't remember?