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WEST WIND: THE YANKEE CLIPPER SHIP Cornelia Meigs
西風：洋基快速船 科妮莉亞·梅格斯
Do you remember how Columbus's ship looked, with its high, blunt bow and stern?
你還記得哥倫布的輪船長什么樣子嗎，有著鋒利的船首和船尾？
For hundreds of years sailing ships had been built in that way, and they were slow, clumsy, and hard to handle.
數百年來，輪船都是這個模樣，它們很笨拙，不易操作。
Then came the Yankee clippers, the swiftest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built.
之后是洋基快船，它是史上最漂亮，最快速的船只。
They were so beloved by all sailors that they were called The Darlings of the Sea.
也是所有船員的最愛，它們被稱之為“海上的寵兒”。
This author has made up an interesting story about a clipper ship.
作者講述了一個關于快船的有趣故事。
THE SHIPMASTER AND HIS MODEL
船長和他的模型
From the time when they first went to school to learn their letters,
回想當初第一次去學校上學，
Jonathan Adams and Humphrey Reynolds spent most of their waking hours in each other's company.
喬納森·亞當斯和漢弗萊·雷諾茲總在一起。
They looked for birds' nests together in the woods at the edge of the broad Susquehanna River,
他們一起去叢林中尋找鳥巢，地點位于寬闊的薩斯奎哈納河邊緣，
they paddled along its marshy banks, they played interesting games in that busy, entrancing place, Jonathan's father's shipyard.
他們在泥濘的河岸邊淌水，他們在喬納森父親的船塢玩有趣的游戲，這里很繁忙很有趣。
Or they would stand side by side watching a great ship of war come sailing up the bay
或者站在一起看著巨大戰船駛向海灣，
with square white sails and darkly outlined rigging, the vessel that was commanded by Captain Reynolds, Humphrey's father.
卷起白色的浪花，看到了船上暗黑色的索具，這艘船由漢弗萊的父親雷諾茲船長指揮。
The two boys talked much of what they would do when they were men; they would sit for long hours on the wharf,
兩個小孩談論了許多長大后的愿望，他們會在碼頭待上幾個小時，
their legs dangling above the water, discussing the future.
雙腿在水上來回擺動，討論著未來。
I am going into the navy like my father, Humphrey would say,
我要像父親一樣去海軍，漢弗萊說到，
and I intend to sail in the finest and fastest ship of the whole fleet to the very ends of the world and back again.
我要駕駛整個艦隊中最先進，最快速的艦船去世界的盡頭，然后返回。
And I will have you for an officer, Jonathan. No, Jonathan would return seriously,
我要讓你喬納森成為一名軍官，喬納森毅然回絕了，
I get sick when I go to sea, and I don't like hardtack and salt pork.
他說我一出海就感覺不適，我不喜歡硬餅干和咸豬肉。
No, I will stay at home in my father's yards and some day I will build a ship that is a real ship and not just tubs like these.
我要待在父親的院子中，我將來會建造一艘艦船，而不是像這些笨船。
