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● on the return journey：船回来时，在水闸那个地方，还要停留一个时候。她决心（注意作者不用resolved等比较难以捉摸的字，只是用很简单的saying一字）那时再到船上去一次。
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The figure that stood by the tiller on the return was not Michael’s. When Mary came to the lock the red-faced man was telling out the rope, and where Michael always stood by the tiller there was the short strange figure of a man with a pinched, pockmarked face.
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● “若干时候以后，船回来了，Mary又赶去了……”这种话在叙事明快的文章里，是可以省去的。
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● 掌舵的已经换了一个人，远远一看身材就知道不对。
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● telling out the rope：船上的绳本来是圈好的，现在用到它，一圈一圈地（telling，有“计数”之意）把它拉出来。
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● 现在舵工换了一个矮小个儿，一脸苦相（pinched），且有麻子（pockmarked）。
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When the red-faced man wound the rope round the stump at the lock, bringing the boat to a stand-still, he turned to Mary.
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“Michael is gone voyaging,” he said.
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“Gone voyaging?” Mary repeated.
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“Ay,” the man answered. “He would be always talking to the foreign sailors in the dock where the canal ends. His eyes would be upon the big masts of the ships. I always said he would go.”
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● 绳拉出来是预备碇泊之用，现在绳是绕在木桩之上。bringing to a stand-still是成语：使停止。voyaging：通常指“长程航海”。
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● foreign sailors：呼应前面的a strange sailor。dock：船坞。where the canal ends：运河的终点。
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● masts：桅杆。ships和barque有大小之别。
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● 红脸汉几句简单的话，很清楚地把Michael的理想说明了。
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Mary stood there while The Golden Barque was in the lock. It looked like a toy ship packed in a wooden box.
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“A three-master he went in,” the red-faced man said, as they made ready for the start. “I saw her standing out for the sea last night. Michael is under the spread of big canvas. He had the blood in him for the wide ocean, the wild blood of the rover.“And the red-faced man, who was the boss of the boat, let his eyes wander up the narrow neck of water before him.
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● 据Mary看来，斯船已不复是金船。小船在水闸里停着，只像是一只装（packed）在木盒里的玩具船。
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● three-master：三桅大船。
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● they：泛指船上的人。made ready：管水闸的人把水位调整好了，船又可以开航了。
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● her：船习惯用阴性代名词代替。
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● under the spread of big canvas：巨帆张起，Michael站在下面。
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● in him：在他身体里面。the wild blood加强前面的the blood…for the wild ocean：他有爱好海洋的血，流浪人的血。
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● boss：主人。红脸汉虽不能出海远航，他的心未尝不追随Michael于海上焉，所以他的眼睛往前看。
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Mary watched The Golden Barque moving away, the grotesque figure standing by the tiller. She stayed there until a pale moon was shining below her, turning over a little trinket in her fingers. At last she dropped it into the water.
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It made a little splash, and the vision of the crescent was broken.
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