哥倫比亞發現西班牙寶藏沉船
Colombia says it has found the shipwreck of a storied Spanish galleon laden with gold, silver and precious stones, three centuries after it was sunk by the British in the Caribbean.
哥倫比亞聲稱發現了三個世紀前在加勒比海被英國擊沉的西班牙聖荷西號巨型遇難帆船。據悉這艘聞名歷史的帆船上載有大量的黃金、銀幣和寶石。"This is the most valuable treasure that has been found in the history of humanity," President Juan Manuel Santos declared on Saturday. He was speaking from the northern port city of Cartagena, close to where experts made the hugely valuable find.
哥倫比亞總統桑托斯在週六公開說，“這是人類歷史上發現的最有價值的寶藏。” 他於北部的城市卡他赫納發佈了這則消息，那裏距專家發現巨大寶藏的地點很近。The loot is estimated to be worth around $2 billion, its value having dropped significantly due to the falling price of silver, according to US-based company Sea Search Armada.
總部在紐約的海艘艦隊公司稱，這艘寶藏的價值估測爲20億美元，但由於銀價跌落，它已明顯貶值。
SSA, whose subsidiary claimed in the early 1980s that it had found the galleon's final resting place, was engaged in a long-running battle with the government of Colombia. The find was not confirmed and a US court ultimately ruled it was Colombian property.
海艘艦隊公司的子公司早在20世紀80年代便表示已經發現了沉船的最終位置，但是卻陷於與哥倫比亞政府長期的爭執中。爭議一直沒有結果，最終美國法院宣佈這艘帆船的所有權歸哥倫比亞。The San Jose has long been the source of fascination and popular legends, and even figures in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera."
這艘名爲聖荷西號的帆船一直是魔力之源和民間神話，甚至被作家加西亞·馬爾克斯寫進他的故事《霍亂時期的愛情》裏。Although they found plenty of other wrecks, the San Jose's location had remained a mystery until now.
儘管人們已經發現了大量的沉船殘骸，但聖荷西號的具體位置仍然是一個謎。The San Jose was sunk in June 1708 near the Islas del Rosario, off Colombia's Caribbean coast, during combat with British ships attempting to take its cargo, as part of the War of Spanish Succession. The galleon was the main ship in a treasure fleet carrying gold, silver and other valuable items from Spain's American colonies to King Philip V.
聖荷西號1708年沉落在加勒比海岸的港口城市羅薩里奧附近，當時西班牙在與英國交戰，英國船隊企圖攔截西班牙貨物，這也是西班牙王室繼承戰的一部分。這艘帆船作爲主船隊，載滿着從西班牙在南美的殖民地進獻給西班牙國王費利佩五世金銀珠寶。Only a handful of the ship's crew of 600 survived when the San Jose sank.
聖荷西號沉沒的時候只有小部分600人的船員倖存。
