来源：The Points Guy UK，原标题：The biggest cruise ship ever built touched water for the first time this weekend，作者：Gene Sloan
本周末，史上最大游轮达到了建造上的一个主要里程碑。
The biggest cruise ship ever built hit a major construction milestone this weekend.
皇家加勒比的“海洋奇迹号”首次从法国St. Nazaire的大西洋造船厂的干坞中浮了起来。该游轮在这里已建造了一年多。
Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas touched water for the first time as it “floated out” from a dry dock at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, France, where it has been under construction for more than a year.
作为绿洲级别游轮的最新一艘，这艘18层甲板的游轮目前已转入湿坞，剩下的完工工作将持续到明年。
The 18-deck-high vessel — the latest in the line’s giant Oasis Class of ships — transferred to a “wet dock” where finishing work will continue into next year.
“海洋奇迹号”原计划于2021年首次亮相，但皇家加勒比集团最近表示，由于疫情，该船的首次亮相将推迟10个月左右，即2022年。
Wonder of the Seas had been scheduled to debut in 2021, but Royal Caribbean recently said the vessel’s debut would be pushed back by around 10 months, citing the coronavirus pandemic. That would push its arrival into 2022.
游轮建造的早期阶段是在干船坞中进行的。船只的外部结构完成后，干船坞将被注水，然后将船浮至湿船坞，在那里继续施工。它被认为是造船业的重要转折点。
The early stages of the construction of a cruise ship take place in a dry dock facility. Once the exterior of a vessel is complete, the dry dock is flooded and the ship is floated to a wet dock facility where construction continues. It’s considered a significant turning point in the building of a vessel.
游轮公司正在继续建造新船，这似乎很奇怪，即使他们的大多数现有船由于疫情而无法航行。但是邮轮公司预计，一旦危机过去，邮轮业将以显著的速度恢复增长，从而导致对额外船只的需求。
It may seem odd that cruise lines are continuing to build new ships even as most of their existing ships aren’t sailing due to the coronavirus crisis. But cruise companies expect the cruise industry to resume growing at a significant pace once the crisis has passed, resulting in demand for additional vessels.
由于预计游轮业的复苏将非常缓慢，因此近几个月来一些游轮公司永久退役了一些旧船，尽管如此，作为游轮业领头羊的皇家加勒比公司并没有取消新船订单的计划。他们表示，如果他们需要在短期内减少运力，他们宁愿保留新船并淘汰旧船。
While lines have been permanently retiring some older ships in recent months in anticipation of a slow restart to cruising, the leaders of the biggest cruise companies have said they have no plans to cancel orders for new ships. They’ve said they would rather keep the new ships and eliminate older ships if they need to cut capacity in the short term.
“海洋奇迹号”将成为皇家加勒比开创性的“绿洲”级系列中的第5艘，比其他任何游轮都要大20％以上。
Wonder of the Seas will be the fifth vessel in Royal Caribbean’s groundbreaking Oasis Class series of ships, which are more than 20% bigger than any other cruise ships afloat.
现有的4艘“绿洲”级船舶包括228,081吨的“海洋交响乐号”（Symphony of the Sea），这是目前全球最大的游轮。十八层甲板，近1200英尺长（约365米），最多可容纳6680名乘客。
The four existing Oasis Class vessels include the 228,081-ton Symphony of the Seas — the current size leader in the cruise world. Eighteen decks high and nearly 1,200 feet long, it can hold up to 6,680 passengers at maximum occupancy.
该船及其姊妹船就像陆地上的大型度假胜地，拥有数十家餐馆和酒吧、百老汇风格的娱乐场所、赌场和许多观景台。海洋交响曲有三个泳池区、巨大的水滑道、攀岩墙、冲浪模拟器、一个小型高尔夫球场，甚至还有一个溜冰场。
The vessel and its sisters resemble megaresorts on land with dozens of restaurants and bars, Broadway-style entertainment, casinos and lots of deck-top attractions. Symphony of the Seas has three pool areas, giant waterslides, rock climbing walls, surfing simulators, a miniature golf course and even an ice skating rink.
尽管皇家加勒比对“海洋奇迹号”到底有多大而遮遮掩掩，但一位高管去年向一家媒体暗示，“海洋奇迹号”（以及另一艘2023年将交付的绿洲级游轮）的尺寸将打破记录。
While Royal Caribbean has been coy as to just how big Wonder of the Seas will be, a top executive at Royal Caribbean hinted to The Points Guy last year that the newcomer (and another Oasis Class ship on order for 2023) are likely to set new size records.
每艘推出的绿洲级船都比上一艘大一点。
Every Oasis Class ship that has rolled out has been a little bigger than the last.
此外，“海洋奇迹号”预计将于2022年在中国上海首航。
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