我是水手的儿子，是听海的故事长大的。

I was the son of sailors and reared on stories of the sea.

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哪个孩子不知道勇敢的水手格列佛周游各地，一会儿变成巨人，一会儿又变成小小人儿的故事呢？

What child does not know the story of the brave sailor Gulliver as he travels through lands in which he is at turn both a giant and a midget?

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它可能是水手的美人鱼故事的启示，儒艮与大象是密切相关的。

Possibly the inspiration for mariners' tales of mermaids, dugongs are closely related to elephants.

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