A magician on a cruise liner had a parrot, who'd seen all the magician's tricks a million times, long ago having figured out how the magician made everything in the act disappear.

一艘游船上的魔术师有只鹦鹉，这个魔术师的所有戏法它都看过上百万次，早就弄清楚了魔术师怎么在表演中让所有东西消失不见。

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Make sure the wood screws aren't too long and penetrate the plastic liner.

注意木螺钉不要太长，以免刺破塑料膜。

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I can go on with the long list just to prove a point. In other words, working onboard a cruise liner will demand so much from you. It may be way beyond your respective expectation.

我可以列出一份长单子去证明这一点。换句话说，在船上工作真的要求你很多。或许超出了你们各自的预料。

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Some pieces serve as sturdy reminders of the 882-foot-long liner's "unsinkable" billing, such as a 17-ton piece of the hull that still contains thick rivets and porthole views into what would have been a pair of third-class cabins.

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It made me long for the Aurora, the airship liner where I used to work before starting my studies at the Academy.

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