书名：20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 海底两万里
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1100L
作者：Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳
出版社名称：William Collins
出版时间：2010
语种：英文
ISBN：9780007351046
商品尺寸：11.1 x 2.4 x 17.8 cm
包装：简装
页数：384

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea《海底两万里》是法国作家儒勒·凡尔纳创作的长篇小说，为“凡尔纳三部曲”中的第二部。小说主要讲述了博物学家阿龙纳斯、其仆人康塞尔和鱼叉手尼德·兰一起随鹦鹉螺号潜艇船长尼摩周游海底的故事。

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1.法国著名科幻作家儒勒·凡尔纳代表作之一；
2.《三体》作者刘慈欣启蒙之作；
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4.轻型环保纸印刷，小巧轻便，方便随身携带阅读。
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his colleagues set out on an expedition to find a strange sea monster and are captured by the infamous and charismatic Captain Nemo and taken abroad the Nautilus submarine as his prisoners. As they travel the world’s oceans, they become embroiled in adventures and events beyond their wildest dreams. Visionary in its outlook, Vern’s20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a legendary science fiction masterpiece.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea《海底两万里》
1866年，海上发现了一只疑似为独角鲸的大怪物，阿龙纳斯教授及仆人康塞尔受邀参加追捕。在追捕过程中，他们与鱼叉手尼德·兰不幸落水，到了怪物的脊背上。他们发现这怪物并非是什么独角鲸，而是一艘构造奇妙的潜艇。潜艇是尼摩在大洋中的一座荒岛上秘密建造的，船身坚固，利用海水发电。尼摩船长邀请阿龙纳斯作海底旅行。他们从太平洋出发，经过珊瑚岛、印度洋、红海、地中海、大西洋，看到海中许多罕见的动植物和奇异景象。途中还经历了搁浅、土著围攻、同鲨鱼搏斗、冰山封路、章鱼袭击等许多险情……
The sea is everything. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert where man is never done, for he feels life quivering around him on every side.
Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his colleagues set out on an expedition to find a strange sea monster and are captured by the infamous and charismatic Captain Nemo and taken abroad the Nautilus submarine as his prisoners. As they travel the world’s oceans, they become embroiled in adventures and events beyond their wildest dreams. Visionary in its outlook, Vern’s20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a legendary science fiction masterpiece.

儒勒·凡尔纳（Jules Verne），19世纪法国有名的科幻小说和冒险小说作家，被誉为“科学幻想小说之父”。凡尔纳一生著述颇丰，创作的长篇小说和短篇小说集共计六十六部，以及《法国地理》一卷，《伟大的旅行家和伟大的旅行史》六卷。代表作品有《八十天环游地球》《海底两万里》《格兰特船长和他的儿女》《神秘岛》《气球上的五星期》《地心游记》等。
French writerJules Verne(February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905) pioneered the science fiction literary genre. He published many plays, essays, short stories, and poems during his lifetime, but is best known for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, and A Journey to the Center of the Earth. Today, he is one of the most translated authors in the world.

DURING THE PERIOD in which these developments were occurring, I had returned from a scientific undertaking organized to explore the Nebraska badlands in the United States. In my capacity as Assistant Professor at the Paris Museum of Natural History, I had been attached to this expedition by the French government. After spending six months in Nebraska, I arrived in New York laden with valuable collections near the end of March. My departure for France was set for early May. In the meantime, then, I was busy classifying my mineralogical, botanical, and zoological treasures when that incident took place with the Scotia.
I was perfectly abreast of this question, which was the big news of the day, and how could I not have been? I had read and reread every American and European newspaper without being any farther along. This mystery puzzled me. Finding it impossible to form any views, I drifted from one extreme to the other. Something was out there, that much was certain, and any doubting Thomas was invited to place his finger on the Scotia’s wound.
When I arrived in New York, the question was at the boiling point. The hypothesis of a drifting islet or an elusive reef, put forward by people not quite in their right minds, was completely eliminated. And indeed, unless this reef had an engine in its belly, how could it move about with such prodigious speed?
Also discredited was the idea of a floating hull or some other enormous wreckage, and again because of this speed of movement.
So only two possible solutions to the question were left, creating two very distinct groups of supporters: on one side, those favoring a monster of colossal strength; on the other, those favoring an “underwater boat” of tremendous motor power.
Now then, although the latter hypothesis was completely admissible, it couldn’t stand up to inquiries conducted in both the New World and the Old. That a private individual had such a mechanism at his disposal was less than probable. Where and when had he built it, and how could he have built it in secret?
Only some government could own such an engine of destruction, and in these disaster-filled times, when men tax their ingenuity to build increasingly powerful aggressive weapons, it was possible that, unknown to the rest of the world, some nation could have been testing such a fearsome machine. The Chassepot rifle led to the torpedo, and the torpedo has led to this underwater battering ram, which in turn will lead to the world putting its foot down. At least I hope it will.
But this hypothesis of a war machine collapsed in the face of formal denials from the various governments. Since the public interest was at stake and transoceanic travel was suffering, the sincerity of these governments could not be doubted. Besides, how could the assembly of this underwater boat have escaped public notice? Keeping a secret under such circumstances would be difficult enough for an individual, and certainly impossible for a nation whose every move is under constant surveillance by rival powers.
So, after inquiries conducted in England, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Italy, America, and even Turkey, the hypothesis of an underwater Monitor was ultimately rejected.
And so the monster surfaced again, despite the endless witticisms heaped on it by the popular press, and the human imagination soon got caught up in the most ridiculous ichthyological fantasies.