由于船已经倾斜，桅杆远远地伸到了水面上，我坐着的桁梁上面只有一湾海水。

Owing to the cant of the vessel the masts hung far out over the water and from my perch on the cross-trees I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay.

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南大湖阴暗的水让我有一种希望看到一条船在湖上漂流的冲动——就像英国诗人丁尼生在《亚瑟王之死》所描述的情景：三个穿着黑衣的王后坐着船前来迎载亚瑟王。

The murky water of the Nantah Lake makes me wildly hope to see a barge floating down, as in Tennyson's Morted'Arthur, carrying three black-draped queens coming to carry off King Arthur.

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