This may be done deliberately, for example, to slow the boat down to prevent crossing the starting line too soon in a sail race.

这有可能是蓄意之举，例如在帆船赛中为防止抢跑而将船降速的一种办法。

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Starting ga business is like building a boat from scratch and setting sail. Unless you build boats for a living, expect things to go wrong very quickly.

开始做生意就像从零开始建造一艘船到它开始航行。除非你以制造船谋生，（否则）你不会希望它很快就出问题题。

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As the weather was so nice on the Easter weekend, we decided to go there, take a boat across the lake and walk back to our starting point.

由于复活节周末天气格外晴朗，所以我们决定去沃尔夫冈湖爬山，先乘坐小船穿过湖泊，然后再步行返回出发点。

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As each wave came, the boat rose and fell, like a horse starting toward a fence too high to jump.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

As I felt my eyes starting to dry out, I heard a yell from the other side of the boat and turned around just in time to see a spout rise into the air.

BBC: A wild world off California's coast

"It had pulled in - starting to pull in - and what it did was it hit the right side of the boat on the dock hard, like a bomb, " Dee Wertz told the network.

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