可是他们是并排地拴在一起航行的，所以老人想，只要它高兴，让它把我带回家去得了。

But they were sailing together lashed side by side and the old man thought, let him bring me in if it pleases him.

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我在特立尼达那边曾经亲眼看到过他的中桅船，可是跟我一起航行的那个胆小的饭桶直要往后退，往后退，先生，他一直退到西班牙港哩。

I've seen his top-sails with these eyes, off Trinidad, and the cowardly son of a rum-puncheon that I sailed with put back — put back, Sir, into Port of Spain.

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