Under the ruse of giving an academic lecture, I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children.

在做一堂学术讲座背后，我试图把我自己装进一个瓶子里，希望有一天这个瓶子会被冲上沙滩让我的孩子们看到。

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On the beach in Cancun, a message in a bottle from Oxfam International urges action at this week's climate conference in the Mexican resort. (Israel Leal)

在坎昆的沙滩上，国际乐施会的一个瓶子传递了一条信息，敦促本周在墨西哥度假胜地举行的气候变化会议立即采取行动。

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The best thing about this is that while most people at the beach are unlikely to be carrying anti-sting lotions, they are likely to be carrying a bottle of coke.

这个办法的好处是，大部分人去海边玩时不大可能特意带上防蜇液，然而他们很可能要带一瓶可乐。

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For 96 miles we wended our way through rolling hills covered with kelly-green acacia, finally arriving at Monkey Mia, a strip of white-sand beach where bottle-nosed dolphins come every morning to beg for fish.

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Another time I got a beach towel and plastic water bottle emblazoned with the Forbes logo.

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With the day waning, Jeanne and I parked our Mitsubishi Outlander, grabbed a blanket and a bottle of Margaret River wine and walked to the beach.

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