我浮上水面，深吸了一口气。

I bobbed to the surface and gasped a lungful of air.

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他浮上水面，但围观的人们听说他看到财宝箱，便怂恿他再潜下去。

He rose to the surface; but the bystanders, when they heard he had seen the treasure, persuaded him to dive again. He dived.

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湖水遭到污染，导致大量死鱼浮上水面，成片腐烂的尸体让游客避而远之。

The waters of the lake have become polluted resulting in large Numbers of dead fish floating on its surface and the stench of rotting fish is keeping tourists away.

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They think that a stick refracted in the water is therefore a crooked stick.

诗人甚至不能理解折射，还认为从水面上看,水中的木棍儿显得弯曲是因为它就是弯的呢。

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