So far the best gift I has ever received is a hand-made exquisite mini plastic boat which was given by my best friend.

到现在为止，我收到的最好礼物是我最好的朋友送给我的，一个手工制作的、非常精巧的微型塑料船。

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He says the fishing boat was relatively small, and made of reinforced plastic.

他说，这艘渔船比较小，并且是由强化塑料所制造。

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He glued the model boat together with plastic cement.

他用塑料胶合剂把小船模型胶合起来。

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It's four o'clock in the morning and the 68-year-old fisherman is dragging a plastic trunk of fish carcasses across the dock toward his boat.

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If a little curiosity, imagination and time can engineer plastic bottles into a boat and that boat can then forge its way into the collective imaginations of people everywhere, then who knows what else is possible?

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Now in 2010, David de Rothschild has built an entire boat out of plastic bottles and is sailing the Plastiki across the Pacific.

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The brief for the Plastiki Expedition was to design a boat made out of plastic bottles that could be sailed across the Pacific Ocean that would draw attention to the problems facing the oceans as well as the kind of solutions that we need to implement.

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