But the biggest reward is the message in a bottle finding its way back home.

但最大的收获是找到了瓶子里的信息所归属的地方。

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A message in a bottle sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago was found 1,500 miles away and has been returned to his daughter.

五十多年前，一位新罕布什尔州的男子在海面上放了一只瓶子，瓶子里的一条信息在1500英里外被人发现，并已归还给他的女儿。

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Okay, it might not be a physical message in bottle, but it is something almost as ambitious.

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Or future readers, like sending a message in a bottle?

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The imagery was of a lonely freighter out there somewhere in the dark, with Winchell's disembodied voice floating out of the blackness, like a rumor, a message in a bottle.

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