The boy pulled the boat's head round in order to avoid the conflict with the boat in front of him.

这个男孩为了避免同前面的小船相撞而掉转了船头。

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He beached the boat and lifted the boy onto the shore.

他把小船拖上岸，把男孩抱到岸上。

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After forty days without a fish, the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone with another boat which caught three good fish the first week.

四十天没钓到一条鱼，男孩的父母告诉他，老人现在是“撒劳”了，这是最倒霉的倒霉事。于是男孩和另一条船一起去了，这条船在第一个星期就钓到了三条好鱼。

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Then, in 1960, a notebook was found containing another Essex narrative, parallel with Owen Chase's, written by Thomas Nickerson, cabin boy on the ship and a crew member of Chase's castaway boat.

ECONOMIST: The cannibalism of the sea