He went around passing out rumors that his mother had actually been impregnated by the god Apollo, when he appeared as a snake in her bed.

他散布谣言说,阿波罗神化身为蛇，与他的母亲结合。

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By now the cabin boy, Parker, is lying at the bottom of the lifeboat in the corner because he had drunk seawater against the advice of the others and he had become ill and he appeared to be dying.

现在派克正蜷缩在救生艇的角落,因为他不顾众人劝阻饮用了海水,他生病了，而且似乎快死了。

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The head of a string of pigs appeared, snout-up, over the ditch, and he had to screech to a stop and watch the rear of the last pig disappear shaking into the ditch on the other side.

这时候出现了一群猪，仰着鼻子走过水渠，他只好用一个急刹车,目送着最后一只猪大摇大摆地跨过水沟,消失在另一端。

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