虽然人们常常对水手们讲的故事付诸一笑，但现在看来，人们有时看到的这些“妖怪”很多不过是些奇怪的鱼。

Though people have often laughed at stories told by seamen, it is now known that many of these 'monsters' which have at times been sighted are simply strange fish.

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但现在年纪比我小的人都笑我；我不容许他们的父亲与我羊群的犬只为伴。

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

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