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双语美文之似水流年 （60）内卡河上木筏行(2)

These rafts were of a shape and construction to the crookedness and extreme narrowness of the Neckar. 这些木筏的形状和结构都适用于内卡河道弯曲和极狭窄的特点。 They were from fifty to one hundred yards long, and they gradually tapered from a nine-log breadth at their sterns, to a three-log breadth at their bow-ends. 它们的长度由100码逐渐缩为50码，由尾部9根原木的宽度...

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双语美文之似水流年 （61）内卡河上木筏行(3)

Grazing the right-bank dike and aiming carefully for the middle arch of the stone bndge below; 顺流而下，擦过堤岸的右侧边缘，小心地对准下游石桥的中孔滑下。 I watched them in this way,and lost all this time hoping to see one of them hit the pridge-pier and wreck itself sometime or other, 我就这样望着它们，在对什么时候能看到它们撞在桥墩，成为残骸的憧憬中迷失了自我。 ...

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双语美文之似水流年 （62）内卡河上木筏行(4)

So I chartered the raft and the crew and took all the responsibilities on myself. 于是，我租下了这条木筏，雇了他的舵手，一切责任由我承担。 With a rattling song the starboard watch bent to their work and hove the cable short, then got the anchor home, and our bark moved off with a stately, stride，and soon was bowling along at about two knots an hour. 伴着一阵激昂的...

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双语美文之似水流年 （63）内卡河上木筏行(5)

We went slipping silently along, between the green and fragrant banks, with a sense of pleasure and contentment that grew, and grew, all the time. 带着不断高涨的愉悦和满足感，我们在郁葱芳香的河岸间静静地滑行。 Sometimes the banks were overhung with thick masses of willows that wholly hid the ground behind；sometimes we had noble hills on one hand, clothed densely with...

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