我的船在着火后下沉了。

My ship sank after the fire.

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他们把我的船弄沉了。

They sank my boat.

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在角落里有一个水桶，我过去常把我的船放在那里让它漂浮着。

There in the corner stood a waterpail, where I used to swim my boats.

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For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

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