镇上的隐居者梁叔住在水库附近的小屋里，本该早一点从他的午睡中醒来，抓住这些笨手笨脚的偷船贼。

Uncle Liang, the town’s hermit, who lived in a shack by the reservoir, could have woken from his midday nap early and caught the young thieves clumsily rowing his boat into the open water.

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“柴火都是在水里捞上来的，”在一个船屋里照顾孙辈的56岁的梁桂妹说。

"We pull the firewood from the water," said Leung Kwai-mui, 56, who was minding her grandchildren on a houseboat.

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我第一次抛出船外几个备用码和梁。

I first threw overboard several spare yards and spars.

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