第1个回答 2015-12-30
刘松柏在《客观的“历史”与主观的“历史学” ———从邓世昌的“义犬”说开去》中写道:“当时在北洋舰队做教习的美籍军官马吉芬所著的《鸭绿江外的海战》(the battle of the Yalu)。关于邓世昌与他的太阳犬落水的过程,该著作中是这样记述的:
“Captain Tang had a large dog of a most vicious temper, unruly at times even with his master. Afterthe ship sank Captain Tang, who could not swim,managed to get to an oar or some small piece of wood— enough to have supported him had not his dog swum to him, and, climbing up on him, forced him to release his grasp and thus miserably drown, the brute sharing his fate — perhaps the only case on record of a man drowned by his dog.”
这段英文史料大致的意思是说邓世昌落水后,抱住一小块碎裂的甲板求生。这时他的那只狗向主人游来,并爬到他的身上,迫使他松开了所抓住的东西,结果人和狗就一起沉下去了。
甲午海战中最悲壮的莫过于致远号的管带邓世昌的壮烈殉国。邓世昌坠落海中后,其随从以救生圈相救,被他拒绝,并说:“我立志杀敌报国,今死于海,义也,何求生为!”,所养的爱犬“太阳”亦游至其旁,口衔其臂以救,邓世昌誓与军舰共存亡,毅然按犬首入水,自己亦同沉没于波涛之中,与全舰官兵250余人一同壮烈殉国。