Every web surfer, in the course of his or her browsing, has been forced to stop and perform this weird little task.

每一个互联网用户在浏览的过程中，都不得不停下来完成一个奇怪的小任务。

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But he sleeps in a van he co-owns with another surfer and they both frequently panhandle tourists for money.

但他却住在和另一个冲浪员共有的一个货车里，他们俩总是向游客讨钱。

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This allows a surfer living in London to decide whether to head to Portugal or to Cornwall for the weekend, though it also increases the chances that many others will be there too.

如此一来，生活在伦敦的冲浪者可以选择周末是去葡萄牙还是康沃尔郡冲浪，但这也增加了其他人也会去哪儿的几率。

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When his friend Billy Calloway got a road bike, he got one too, and the pair would set off across the George Washington Bridge and up to Bear Mountain, utterly clueless, a single water bottle between them, Dave dressed in surfer shorts and wrestling shoes.

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But it is impossible to imagine its wacky inventor, Kary Mullis, who accepted the Nobel prize dressed in a surfer's drysuit, flourishing in the stuffy constraints of Roche's Basle headquarters.

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In all cases, the surfer ends up in the water.

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