Afterward,we took my little boat heading straight for the Captain's house.

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So, in a sense, it says, you know, if you wanted to build a boat that took energy out of the warmth of the air to sail around the world, you can do that.

因此，某种意义上说，它宣称如果你想要造一艘船,通过从空气中获取热量,这是可以做到的。

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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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