When it was time to launch, I realized I had made my boat too far from the nearest stream.

到了下水的时候，我意识到我的船离最近的小溪太远了。

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I began to think of my days sailing in a tidy boat with Xury.

我开始回想起我和苏里一起乘一条整洁的小船航行的日子。

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Can you give me a boat? Said the man. "Use my trunk to build your boat."

你能给我一条船吗？ “ ”。

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During the summer of nineteen forty-one, every morning McCall Purnell and I would get my small boat and go out to catch shellfish called crabs.

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For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

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As I saw to the boat, my buddies hit the on-site liquor store and loaded the suite with Sands beer, Havana Club rum, and Cohiba cigars that seemed just as important as the spears and snorkels.

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Although I cannot provide any great studies to prove this, my experience is that a boat load of people know they are going to die a significant period of time before they actually die.

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