击水声

Extract 3 'Sometimes we came upon a station close by the bank, clinging to the skirts of the unknown, and the white men rushing out of a tumbledown hovel, with great gestures of joy and surprise and welcome, seemed very strange-- had the appearance of being held there captive by a spell. The word 'ivory' wouldring in the air for a while - and on we went again into the silence, along empty reaches, round the still bends, between the high walls of our winding way, reverberating in hollow claps the ponderous beat of the stern wheel. Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at

有时我们会经过紧挨着河岸，紧挨着那片未知地域边缘的一个贸易站，白人们从一间摇摇欲坠的茅屋里冲出来，打着很多表示高兴、惊奇和欢迎的手势，看起来十分古怪—看上去像是被符咒镇在那儿当了俘虏，'象牙'这个词照例会在空气中回响一阵子—然后又一次驶入寂静，沿着一片没有人烟的水道，绕过一个个平静的转角，穿过蜿蜒航程中的峭壁，船尾外轮沉重的击水声空洞地回响着。

I will endeavour to find you some assistance.

我尽力帮你找人帮忙。

At first I only know bruck is the idol of American younglings, afterwards I returned back to Taiwan ,even in Beijing last year ,I saw her poster everywhere, I was so surprised at her charm.

起初我只晓得布鲁克雷德丝是美国少男少女崇拜的偶像，后来回台湾，甚至去年在北京，居然也四处看见她的海报，才惊讶她的魅力之大。