His father watched him with admiration as the boy skillfully worked the fish alongside the bank and he very successfully lifted the exhausted fish from the water.

看着他技巧纯熟地在岸边和鱼周旋，并非常成功地把筋疲力尽的鱼从水里拉了上来，他父亲的眼神里充满赞赏。

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As a diver, he worked several hours a day under the water.

作为一名潜水员，他每天在水下工作好几个小时。

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Sun clocks worked, of course, only on clear days; water clocks misbehaved when the temperature fell toward freezing, to say nothing of long-run drift as the result of sedimentation and clogging.

当然，太阳时钟只能在晴天工作；当温度下降到接近冰点时，水钟就会失灵，长期漂浮的东西因为下沉或堵塞而无法工作。

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Rollhaus eventually scrapped the cumbersome water bumper -- which only worked for collisions up to 20mph -- in favor of cushioning stationary objects like lane dividers.

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After graduating he worked briefly for the North Wales water authority and from 1985 to 1986 he worked as a sub-sea engineer and diver for British Underwater Engineering based in London, spending a lot of time off-shore.

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He trained as a civil engineer and worked at the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water-resource management.

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