小舟

On 19 October 1953, he set out in a small boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

在1953年10月19日，他横跨大西洋的壮举在一条小舟中发生了。

Well, the second night a fog begun to come on, and we made for a towhead to tie to, for it wouldn't do to try to run in a fog; but when I paddled ahead in the canoe, with the line to make fast, there warn't anything but little saplings to tie to.

后来，在第二个夜晚，开始起了雾，我们便朝一处沙洲划去，把木筏系好，因为在雾中行舟是不行的。不过，我坐在独木小舟上，拉着一根缆绳，想把木筏拴在什么一个地方，却无处可拴，除了一些小小的嫩枝。

That was all right as far as it went, but the towhead warn't sixty yards long, and the minute I flew by the foot of it I shot out into the solid white fog, and hadn't no more idea which way I was going than a dead man.

不过，我坐在独木小舟上，拉着一根缆绳，想把木筏拴在什么一个地方，却无处可拴，除了一些小小的嫩枝。我把缆绳套在那凹岸旁边的一颗小树上。

There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.

浅滩的小舟上有个不相识的人正弹着琵琶。

There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.

浅滩的小舟上有个不相识的人正弹著琵琶。

As for the first, which was so vastly big, as I made it without considering before-hand, as I ought to do, how I should be able to launch it; so never being able to bring it to the Water, or bring the Water to it, I was oblig'd to let it lye where it was, as a Memorandum to teach me to be wiser next Time: Indeed, the next Time, tho' I could not get a Tree proper for it, and in a Place where I could not get the Water to it, at any less Distance, than as I have said, near half a Mile; yet as I saw it was practicable at last, I never gave it over: and though I was near two Years about it, yet I never grutch'd my Labour, in Hopes of having a Boat to go off to Sea at last.

这是由于我事先没有考虑到船造好后的下水问题，而这问题是我应该预先考虑到的。现在，那艘独木舟只能躺在原地留作纪念，教训我下一次应学得聪明些。这一次，我没能找到一棵较合适的树，而且，还需把水从半英里以外引过来。然而，当我看到有成功的希望时，就不愿放弃这一机会。虽然造成这条小舟花了将近两年的时间，我却从未偷懒或厌烦。我一直希望，迟早有一天我能坐上小船到海上去。

So we went back and got the canoe, and paddled up abreast the cavern, and lugged all the traps up there.

这样，我们便往回走，找到了独木小舟，划到了和山洞成一直线的地方，把什物都推进了山洞。

As Clay Shirky once quipped, this is like putting an engine on a rowboat to make the oars go faster.

就像克莱·思瑞基（著名的在线文化社会理论家、纽约大学电信互动计划教授克莱·思瑞基）讽刺的一样，这就像是给小舟装上引擎，以便让浆划的快些。

Away down there somewheres I hears a small whoop, and up comes my spirits.

二十码以外，就什么也望不清。我跳进了独木小舟，跑到船尾，抄起桨来，使劲往后一退。

These Thoughts so oppress'd my Mind, that I began to give over my Enterprize, and having haled my Boat into a little Creek on the Shore, I stept out, and sat me down upon a little rising bit of Ground, very pensive and anxious, between Fear and Desire about my Voyage; when as I was musing, I could perceive that the Tide was turn'd, and the Flood come on, upon which my going was for so many Hours impracticable; upon this presently it occurr'd to me, that I should go up to the highest Piece of Ground I could find, and observe, if I could, how the Sets of the Tide, or Currents lay, when the Flood came in, that I might judge whether if I was driven one way out, I might not expect to be driven another way home, with the same Rapidness of the Currents: This Thought was no sooner in my Head, but I cast my Eye upon a little Hill, which sufficiently over-look'd the Sea both ways, and from whence I had a clear view of the Currents, or Sets of the Tide, and which way I was to guide my self in my Return; here I found, that as the Current of the Ebb set out close by the South Point of the Island; so the Current of the Flood set in close by the Shore of the North Side, and that I had nothing to do but to keep to the North of the Island in my Return, and I should do well enough.

我思想压力很大，不得不考虑放弃原定的计划。我把小船拉进沿岸的一条小河里，自己迈步上岸，在一块小小的高地上坐下来沉思。我心情忧郁，心绪不宁。我害怕死，又想前去探个究竟。正当我沉思默想之际，只见潮流起了变化，潮水开始上涨。这样，我一时肯定走不成了。这时，我忽然想到，应该找一个最高的地方，上去观察一下潮水上涨时那两股急流的流向，从中我可以作出判断，万一我被一股急流冲入大海，是否有可能被另一股急流冲回来。我刚想到这一层，就看见附近有一座小山；从山上可以看到左右两边的海面，并对两股急流的流向可以一目了然，从而可以确定我回来时应走哪一个方向。到了山上，我发现那退潮的急流是沿着小岛的南部往外流的，而那涨潮的急流是沿着小岛的北部往里流的。这样，我回来时，小舟只要沿着北部行驶，自然就可以被涨潮的急流带回来。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷