"You may swim well, but put on a flight suit, a survival vest, a helmet and steel-toed boots, and it's a whole different ballgame," Gayles says.

可能你泳游的挺好，可是穿着飞行服、救生背心，头戴钢盔，脚蹬铁头靴子，那就完全不是一码事了。

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They legitimately didn't understand why I was wearing steel-toed flight deck boots.

他们完全不理解我为什么穿飞行甲板铁头鞋。

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His flight outfit of high boots and jodhpurs and a lightweight jumper worn over a shirt and tie was a replica of the one in which he'd crossed the Atlantic, and he spoke without removing his leather headgear or flight goggles, which were pushed up onto his forehead exactly as Sandy had them positioned in the charcoal drawing hidden beneath his bed.

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