Dragon boat racing is said to have begun on the eastern shores of Dongting lake as a search for the body of Qu Yuan, the Chu patriotic poet.

据说龙舟赛始于洞庭湖东岸，为的是搜寻楚国爱国诗人屈原的遗体。

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The boat is believed to have been used to carry the body of Khufu in his last journey on earth before being buried inside the pyramid.

人们认为这条船是胡夫被葬入金字塔前用来搬运其尸体的，他在里面完成了人世最后的旅程。

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That shipwrecks broken ragged rotten boat body covered with seaweed.

那艘沉船破褴褛烂的，船身上长满了海草。

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For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

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Upon the friend's arrival, the two men carried Holloway's body to the boat, and the friend told van der Sloot to go home, he said.

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Eight months later his body was discovered by a French boat.

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After the Sydney Olympics he stepped up to the more demanding Finn Class, meaning he had to add nearly 20 kilograms of extra body weight to be competitive in his new discipline in a bigger boat.

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