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They parted when they were seventeen and did not meet again for years;
17歲時兩人分開，多年未曾見面。
Humphrey went into the navy as he had planned, and Jonathan, with mallet and chisel in hand
漢弗萊去了他想去的海軍，喬納森手持木槌和鑿子，
and with that sober, earnest air that always clung to him, was already at work in his father's shipyard.
他還是那樣沉著冷靜，一絲不茍，他已經在父親的船塢上班了。
In time he became master of the entire business, while Humphrey was scouring the seas,
過了一段時間，他成為了整個領域的主人，漢弗萊依然漂浮在海上，
sailing on just those far voyages of which he had so often dreamed.
去往那些他曾夢想過的地方。
Jonathan had his dreams also, but he did not speak of them, only toiled away at building the heavy, sturdy vessels,
喬納森也有自己的夢想，但他從未談起，只是在努力建造笨重的輪船，
that carried America's trade overseas early in the last century.
在世紀之初，這些船將美國貨物運到海外。
Honest ships they were and reliable, as sure of coming to port as though they had belonged to the age of steam,
這種艦船很結實，可以保證它們順利返航，好似它們屬于蒸汽時代，
but oh, how long it took them to make a voyage! When alone in his dingy little office,
但它們要多久才能進行一次遠航，當他獨自在自己狹小，骯臟的辦公室時，
Jonathan, with the door fastened, would push aside the pile of plans and drawings and would get out the model of a strange vessel,
房門緊閉，喬納森會把一摞摞計劃和圖紙放在一邊，拿出一個奇怪的輪船模型，
sharp, slender, and graceful, with a hull like a racing yacht.
這艘船纖細，華麗輕盈，船體很像急速的快艇。
He would set it upon the bench to carve a little here,
他會將模型放在長凳上一點點雕刻，
to alter a curve by a hair's breadth there, or merely to stand staring at it sometimes for hours at a time, staring and thinking.
細致入微地進行雕刻，有時就是盯著模型長達幾個小時，一邊緊盯一邊思考。
One day when he was standing, utterly lost in his thoughts, there came a knock at the door,
一天他站著思考事情，突然傳來了敲門聲，
followed quickly by a second one and a third, all during the moment that it took the shipmaster to put out of sight his beloved model.
馬上又來了第二聲，第三聲，這時船長將注意力移出了他心愛的模型。
When the door was opened, there strode in a tall sunburned person in blue uniform.
當房門打開時，站著一位穿藍色制服，高大黝黑的男子。
It was Captain Humphrey Reynolds, come at last to see his old comrade, bringing a roll of government papers under his arm.
他就是漢弗萊·雷諾茲上尉，他來看他的老朋友，胳臂抱著一卷政府文件。
