Only to pursue a rash and immoderate desire of rising faster than the nature of the thing admitted

去追求一种不切实际的妄想;异想天开,想做个暴发户,而不是像通常一般人那样靠勤劳积累致富。

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I had certainly never gone away from so prosperous an undertaking, leaving all the probable views of a thriving circumstance

我就决不会放弃自己正在日益兴旺的事业,把发家致富的前景丢之脑后而踏上这次航行。

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And getting all into her, let go, and committed our selves being eleven in number, to god’s merry, and the wild sea

然后,我们十一个人一起上了小艇,解开小艇缆绳,就听凭上帝和风浪支配我们的命运了。

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The wave that came upon me again, buried me at once 20 or 30 foot deep in its own body

巨浪扑来,把我埋入水中二三十英尺深。

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I was ready to burst with holding my breath, when, as I felt my self rising up, so to my immediate relief, I found my head and hands shoot out above the surface of the water

我屏住呼吸气得肺都快炸了。正当此时,我感到头和手已露出水面

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Here I found that the ship was bulg’d, and had a great deal of water in her hold

上去后发现船已漏水,舱底进满了水。

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Yet I saw abundance of fowls, but knew not their kinds, neither when I kill’d them could I tell what was fit for food, and what not

却看到无数飞禽,可都叫不出是什么飞禽,也不知道打死之后肉好不好吃。各位

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And I resolv’d to make another voyage on board the vessel, if possible

我决定只要可能,就再上船去一次。

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And cutting the great cable into pieces, such as I could move

我把锚索截成许多小段,以便于搬运。

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But my good luck began now to leave me

但这次运气不佳。

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