66 Sweet as Honey

名称：66 Sweet as Honey
内容简介：
新概念英语第二册（英音）
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[00:13.78]What was 'sweet as honey' and why?
[00:20.63]In 1963 a Lancaster bomber crashed on Wallis Island,
[00:27.12]a remote place in the South Pacific, a long way west of Samoa.
[00:34.11]The plane wasn't too badly damaged,
[00:37.25]but over the years the crash was forgotten and the wreck remained undisturbed.
[00:44.10]Then in 1989, twenty-six years after the crash,
[00:50.53]the plane was accidentally rediscovered in an aerial survey of the island.
[00:57.38]By this time,
[00:58.99]a Lancaster bomber in reasonable condition was rare and worth rescuing.
[01:05.81]The French authorities had the plane packaged and moved in parts back to France.
[01:13.38]Now a group of enthusiasts are going to have the plane restored.
[01:18.93]It has four Rolls-Royce Merlin engines but the group will need to have only three of them rebuilt.
[01:27.46]Imagine their surprise and delight when they broke open the packing cases
[01:34.06]and found that the fourth engine was sweet as honey--still in perfect condition.
[01:42.68]A colony of bees had turned the engine into a hive and it was totally preserved in beeswax!