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But what do you do? Fall down nine times, get up 10.
能怎么樣呢？只有屢敗屢戰。
So, the following year, I set out and, fortunately, this time made it safely across to Hawaii.
第二年，我重新出發，我這次比較走運，安全地劃渡到達了夏威夷。
But it was not without misadventure.
但也不是完全地一帆風順。
My watermaker broke, only the most important piece of kit that I have on the boat.
我的制水機壞了，它可是我船上最重要的裝備。
Powered by my solar panels, it sucks in saltwater and turns it into freshwater.
它由太陽能電池板發電，吸收海水，然后把它變成淡水。
But it doesn't react very well to being immersed in ocean, which is what happened to it. Fortunately, help was at hand.
但如果它被海水浸泡，則不能正常運轉，而這樣的事情卻不幸地發生了，萬幸的是我立刻得到了幫助。
There was another unusual boat out there at the same time, doing as I was doing,
正好有條與眾不同的船經過那里，他們和我做著同一件事情，
bringing awareness to the North Pacific Garbage Patch, that area in the North Pacific about twice the size of Texas,
用行動來呼吁對北太平洋垃圾大陸的重視，那個地區在太平洋北部，面積是德克薩斯州的兩倍，
with an estimated 3.5 million tons of trash in it, circulating at the center of that North Pacific Gyre.
據北太平洋環流系統中心測試所得，大約有350萬噸的垃圾存在于北太平洋垃圾大陸之中。
So, to make the point, these guys had actually built their boat out of plastic trash,
為了能引起人們重視，這些家伙用塑料垃圾建造了他們的船，
15,000 empty water bottles latched together into two pontoons.
他們把15000個空水瓶捆成了兩個躉船。
They were going very slowly. Partly, they'd had a bit of a delay.
他們航行速度緩慢，他們在一定程度上被拖延。
They'd had to pull in at Catalina Island shortly after they left Long Beach
他們不的不在離開長灘后不久便在卡達琳納島休整了一段時間，
because the lids of all the water bottles were coming undone, and they were starting to sink.
因為他們所有水瓶的蓋子都松動了，所以他們的船開始下沉。
So they'd had to pull in and do all the lids up.
所以他們不得不停下來，把這些蓋子蓋緊。
