My uncle and I gazed on each other with haggard eyes, clinging to the stump of the mast, which had snapped asunder at the first shock of our great catastrophe.

我和叔叔用憔神互相凝视着，紧紧住桅杆树桩， 在我巨大灾难第一波冲击下， 桅杆就折断了。