Six years ago, the fish ecologist Rodney Rountree was on a skiff in the Peruvian Amazon.

六年前，鱼类生态学家罗德尼·朗特乘坐艇航行在秘鲁亚马逊河上。

Several small punts and skiffs were lying about in the water and on the edge of the wharf.

码头上系着几只平底船和艇。

The skiff was launched to sea.

艇放到海中去。

A few strokes of the oar brought the skiff to the sand, where it ran aground.

桨划了几下，艇就到了沙滩上，搁浅下来。

In that event I'll try to get hold of the skiff.

留下，我就想法夺取那只艇。

He settled the sack around his shoulders and put the skiff on her course.

他麻袋在肩头围围好，使船顺着航线驶去。

They were headed straight for the skiff swimming side by side.

它笔直地并肩朝船游来。

The skiff was aground ten fathoms away from us.

我艇停在离我二十米远海上。

He clubbed at heads and heard the jaws chop and the shaking of the skiff as they took hold below.

他朝它头打去，听到上下颚啪地咬住声音，还有它在船底下咬住了鱼使船摇晃声音。

" The ocean is very big and a skiff is small and hard to see, " the old man said.

“海洋非常大，船很，不容易看见，”老人说。

He has to exchange his skiff, skidlid ski suit, and sky blue skullcap for food.

他不得不用他快艇，头盔，滑雪服和天蓝色无边便帽来交换食物。

Head for the skiff! I said, moving toward the sea.

回艇去。我说，同时向海边走。

Gilbert sprang into his skiff with an angry color in his cheeks.

吉尔伯特跳进他艇，脸颊上带着愤怒颜色。

'Only a punt. Or a skiff where it widens below the bridge'.

'只是一个平底船。或者在桥下变宽船。

Swept along at the rate of twelve to thirteen meters per second, he could hardly make use of the skiff.

这样每秒十二至十三米速度，他不可能使用那只艇。

The skiff was aground in its usual place.

我艇仍然停在来地方。

Since that night when the skiff had left the Nautilus on some mysterious mission, my ideas about him had subtly changed.

自从那一夜，艇离开了诺第留斯号执行一个神秘使命，我对于这个人思想，略为改变了一些。

On this day, the eighty-fifth, Santiago, with his skiff loaded and ready, ventured alone into the Gulf Stream.

在这一天，八十五，圣地亚哥，带着他艇装载并准备好，独自冒险进入墨西哥湾流。

He was past everything now and he sailed the skiff to make his home port as well and as intelligently as he could.

他此刻超脱了这一切，只顾尽可能出色而明智地船驶回他家乡港口。

He held the tiller under his arm and soaked both his hands in the water as the skiff drove forward.

他舵柄夹在胳肢窝，双手浸在水，船朝前驶去。