Olympic Diver Mellisa Wu Jumps Off a Tall Ship

　　Australian Olympic diver Melissa Wu has swapped¹ the spring board for the bow of a tallship to launch the International Tall Ship Festival in Sydney.

 

　　CRI's Australia correspondent Wang Xiao has more.

 

　　The tallship is berthed² at Campbell Cove³ on Circular Quay⁴, which is very near Sydney's iconic Opera House.

 

　　Melissa Wu says she's made the splash to try to promote the international Tall Ship Festival.

 

　　"In October, there is the International Tall Ship Festival, so a lot of vessels⁵ and tallships will come in to celebrate the 100th aniversary of the first navy ship coming into Sydney. So that's what this is for."

 

　　She admits this is her first jumps off a tall ship.

 

　　"It is not very high, but I am a little bit nervous, because I am just diving off a thin wire. My feet is nothing like stable. Never off a tall ship before. It is my first time."

 

　　The Chinese-Australian, after a short countdown, wowed the crowd with an almost flawless dive into Sydney Harbor.

 

　　Mellisa Wu was born in 1992.

 

　　Her mother is English-Australian.

 

　　Her father is of Chinese descent.

 

　　She won silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth⁶ Games, the 2007 World Aquatics⁷ Championships and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

 

　　Up to a dozen tall ships crewed by around a thousand sailors are due to arrive in Australia later this year for the tall-ships festival.

 

　　The ships will race from Sydney to Opua in New Zealand, which is just one leg of an around-the-world voyage retracing⁸ old trade routes.

 

　　For CRI, I'm Wang Xiao in Sydney.

1 swapped   

交换（工作）( swap的过去式和过去分词 )； 用…替换，把…换成，掉换（过来）

参考例句：

• I liked her coat and she liked mine, so we swapped. 我喜欢她的外套，她喜欢我的外套，于是我们就交换了。
• At half-time the manager swapped some of the players around. 经理在半场时把几名队员换下了场。

2 berthed   

v.停泊( berth的过去式和过去分词 )；占铺位

参考例句：

• The ship is berthed at Southampton. 船停泊在南安普敦。
• We berthed our ship at dusk. 黄昏时分我们在泊位停船。 来自辞典例句

3 cove   

n.小海湾，小峡谷

参考例句：

• The shore line is wooded,olive-green,a pristine cove.岸边一带林木蓊郁，嫩绿一片，好一个山外的小海湾。
• I saw two children were playing in a cove.我看到两个小孩正在一个小海湾里玩耍。

4 quay   

n.码头，靠岸处

参考例句：

• There are all kinds of ships in a quay.码头停泊各式各样的船。
• The side of the boat hit the quay with a grinding jar.船舷撞到码头发出刺耳的声音。

5 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

参考例句：

• The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6 commonwealth   

n.共和国，联邦，共同体

参考例句：

• He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
• Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。

7 aquatics   

n.水生植物，水生动物( aquatic的名词复数 )；水上运动

参考例句：

• Pasturage breed aquatics basically has pig, ox, sheep and fowl. 畜牧养殖主要有猪、牛、羊和家禽。 来自互联网
• So in English they are National Stadium and National Aquatics Center. 这两处场馆的正式名字叫做”国家体育场”和”国家游泳中心“。 来自互联网

8 retracing   

v.折回( retrace的现在分词 )；回忆；回顾；追溯

参考例句：

• We're retracing the route of a deep explorer mission. 我们将折回一个深入的探险路线中去。 来自电影对白
• Retracing my steps was certainly not an option. 回顾我的脚步并不是个办法。 来自互联网