《独立报》2006年6月11日文章：英国冷战时期的最后一个大谜团
The last GREat mystery of Britain's Cold War
By Francis Elliott, Whitehall Editor
Published: 11 June 2006
（1）Highly classified papers to be released this week cast new light on one of the most enduring Cold War mysteries- the disappearance of Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
The frogman never returned from an unauthorised spying mission on a Russian cruiser carrying Nikita Krushchev to Britain on an official visit 50 years ago. The British government was left gravely embarrassed when the mission's failure became publick________①,after abungled[1]operation to cover it up by the intelligence service.
Now the full extent of Anthony Eden's fury is to be laidb________②when a long-suppressed report into the affair which was sent to the then Prime Minister from his most senior civil servant is published this week under Freedom of Information legislation. But while Sir Edward Bridges confirms that Eden specifically refused permission forMI6[2]to carry out underwater surveillance, it fails to answer the key question of what happened to Crabb.
Sir Edward's report - withheld until now, first on the grounds of national security, and then with the excuse that the papers might have beenc________③withasbestos[3]- is still heavily censored. Marked "Top Secret", it details how Crabb was taken by a naval officer to Portsmouth and made ap________④dive, in which he appeared "in good trim[4]", but disappeared the next day on his mission.
（2）The papers detail how MI6 desperately sought to keep the failed mission secret.His name was removed by local police from the register of the Portsmouth hotel in which he had been staying. When （3）the story began to break about the famous frogman's disappearance, senior officials in theAdmiralty[5], the Foreign Office and MI6 argued among themselves about who was responsible, aGREeing only not to tell any ministers.
A key section of the report on why "due precautions were not taken in carrying out this operation" has been blanked out. （4）Historians may be consoled, however, by ample evidence of Eden's anger at the botched[6]mission, littered in the margins of the report.Against one passage explaining how Whitehall mandarins aGREed to keep the affair from their various ministers, Eden scribbled, "R_________⑤".
His fury is explained in a chronology of the affair included in the report. It shows that on 12 April 1956 - just one week before Crabb's disastrous dive - Eden explicitly rejected a request to mount an underwater surveillance operation."_________________________,（我很抱歉，但在这样的场合，我们不能采取此类行动。）"he told the First Lord of the Admiralty.
NOTES:
[1]bungle vt.办糟；拙劣地工作
[2]MI6 （military intelligence） n.军情六处
[3]asbestos n.石棉
[4]in good trim 状况良好
[5]Admiralty n.英国海军部
[6]botch v. 修补得不好；拙劣地工作
试一试：
1．根据首字母提示和译文，填入适当单词：①the mission's failure became publick________（行动失败的消息广为人知）
②the full extent of his fury is to be laidb________（让人充分了解他当时是何等恼火）
③might have beenc________with asbestos（可能遭到石棉污染）
④made ap________dive（试潜了一次）
⑤Eden scribbled, "R_________".（艾登草草批示：“荒唐。”）
参考答案：①knowledge （become public knowledge开始广为人知） ②bare （lay bare 揭露，公开） ③contaminated ④practice ⑤Ridiculous
2．翻译划线部分英文：
参考答案：
（1）一些高度机密的文件将于本周解密，从而为冷战时期最扑朔迷离的谜团提供新的解释。
（2）报告还讲述了军情六处怎样绞尽脑汁地掩盖行动失败的事实。
（3）街头巷尾开始出现关于这位著名潜水员的失踪经过的传言。
（4）不过，历史学家可以感到安慰的是，有充分证据表明艾登对此次失败的行动大为恼火。这一点在报告的字里行间都有所流露。
3．根据译文，写出句子：
参考译文：I am sorry, but we cannot do anything of this kind on this occasion
水下间谍为何失踪？
2023-01-07英汉翻译
