摘要
今年是泰坦尼克号沉没一百周年。在这一百年的时间里，人们从未停止过对它的热烈讨论，也从未停止过对它沉没真相的探寻：泰坦尼克号是当时技术最先进的客轮吗？泰坦尼克号的沉没与其设计、建造以及航行速度有多大关系？从灾难中幸存的白星航运公司主席伊斯梅真如大家所言是个只顾自己逃命的懦夫吗？被世人崇敬和缅怀的史密斯船长真的是个恪尽职守的英雄吗？看看本文，也许你能找到问题的答案。
As soon as the waves of the North Atlantic closed over. the stern of RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912, the myths began surrounding her design, construction and transatlantic voyage. The Titanic disaster today is a classic tale, a modern folk story, but like all folk stories our understanding of what really happened has been clouded by the way the disaster has been recounted over the years.
