My mind standing on the brink called out, as it were, with an eager waving of hands to the ferryman sailing away across the waves to the other side. For life longed to start on life's journey.

我的心，好似站在河边，热烈地挥舞着手，向那朝着对岸破浪前进的船夫呼喊，因为生命渴望开始生命的旅程。

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If while crossing a ferry you can catch a fish you are a lucky man, but that does not make the ferry boat a fishing boat, nor should you abuse the ferryman if he does not make fishing his business.

如果坐船渡河时，你捉到一条鱼，那算你运气好，但决不能就此把那条渡船当作渔船；同样，倘若渡船的艄公没有抓到鱼儿，也不能责怪他失职。

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He became a ferryman and stayed at the river's side for many years learning its quiet lessons.

他成为一个渡船夫，在河边度过许多年，领悟河流安静的启示。

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The John O'Groats Hotel was built on a site which was once occupied by a 15th Century Dutch ferryman called Jan de Groot.

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Experts say it was customary to place a coin in the mouth of an inhumation as a fare for the ferryman Charon for safe passage across the River Styx in the afterlife.

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Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is named after the ferryman who carried the souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx, which divided the world of the living from that of the dead.

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