About two dozen men flocked down when they see the yawl a - coming , and when the king says 当时有二十来个人聚集在那里，一见小艇开过来，就聚拢过来。
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So they softened down and said it was all right ; and when we got to the village they yawled us ashore 这样，他们就软了下来，说好吧。于是一到那个村子，大轮就派小艇把我们送上了岸。
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But the king was ca m . he says : " if gentlemen kin afford to pay a dollar a mile apiece to be took on and put off in a yawl , a steamboat kin afford to carry em , can t it ? 他说： “要是两位先生愿意每英里路各付一块大洋，由轮船上派一只小艇接送，那大轮就该让他们坐了吧，你们说呢？ ”
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She sent out her yawl , and we went aboard , and she was from cincinnati ; and when they found we only wanted to go four or five mile they was booming mad , and gave us a cussing , and said they wouldn t land us 它是从辛辛那提开来的。等到他们知道我们只要搭四五英里路就要下船，他们就气坏了，把我们臭骂了一顿，还扬言说到时候不放我们上岸。
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He crept down the bank , watching with all his eyes , slipped into the water , swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff that did " yawl " duty at the boat s stern . he laid himself down under the thwarts and waited , panting 他悄悄溜下河堤，睁大眼睛四处张望，然后潜入水中，游了三四下，就爬到船尾那只“突突”待命的小艇上了，躺在坐板下面，气喘吁吁地等着开船。
