Nothing is more intoxicating to an investor than seeing a friend get rich; everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon.

对于投资者来说，没有什么事情比也看到朋友变富有更令人赏心悦目了.每人都想去赶头.

Her mother set her up for a powerful marriage, a marriage that thrust her into the midst of the French Revolution and made her the ultimate representation of the excesses of royalty.

她母亲为她安排了桩有权势婚姻，这段婚姻把她推到了法国大革命风口头，使她成为皇室挥霍终极代表。

Pelicans floated on the swells while seagulls and a lone eagle wheeled above them.

鹈鹕漂浮在头上，成群海鸥和只长鹰在它们头上盘旋着。

With each wave, more water slopped into the cabin.

【slop】随着头打来，更多水漫进了船舱。

But I had been washed away like a sand castle built too close to the waves, and in my place was the person people expected me to be.

但我已经像被海冲刷过，建造得离头太近沙滩城堡，我位置已经被人们认为我所取代。

The top of each wave was a hill, from which the men could see, for a brief period, a wide area of shining sea.

每头顶端都是座小山，人们从那能看到片波光粼粼大海。

And we might see white caps.

我们只会看到头白沫。

The waves with their white tops pushed at the open boat with angry violence. Every man thought each wave would be his last.

头洁白，狂暴地冲着敞着小船。每人都认为，每都是最后。

Sitting in the boat was like sitting on a wild horse. As each wave came, the boat rose and fell, like a horse starting toward a fence too high to jump.

坐在船上就像坐在匹野马上，每头打来，小船就起起落落，像匹马朝着高得跳不动篱笆跑去。

Oh, a wave just washed him in.

哦，头把他冲上岸了。

Something Vahini told me that I didn't realize, but in women's competitions at Teahupo a couple of years ago, they actually stopped having women surf this wave because they said it was too dangerous and it was just the men.

瓦希尼告诉我件事，我之前并不知情：几年前在提阿胡普女性比赛中，他们实际上停止让女性冲者挑战这头， 因为他们认为这太危险了， 只有男性参与。

Surfers competed and wagered on who could ride the farthest, the fastest, or catch the biggest wave, with superior skill granting respect, social status, and romantic success.

冲者们竞相比赛并下注，看谁能滑得最远、最快，或是抓住最大头，卓越技巧不仅能赢得尊敬、提升社会地位，还能在情场上获得成功。

And then accidentally I hit something in YouTube or whatever and it switched to Mike Parsons surfing one of the biggest waves ever filmed.

然后我不小心在YouTube或其他地方点到了什么，画面就切换到了迈克·帕森斯冲场景，那可是有史以来拍摄到最大头之。

Until, out of nowhere, a single massive wave rears up to one side of him, far larger than the rest.

突然，毫预兆地，巨大头从他侧腾起，远比其他头更为庞大。

You just ride the wave of the good times and hopefully it's during the time of the playoffs.

你只需乘着美好时光头，希望这好运能出现在季后赛期间。

As I ran another wave overtook me.

我跑着跑着, 又头将我淹没。

And this is just one of many waves, right?

这只是众多头之，对吧？

The waves in the South Pacific are just so big and, you know, it's like people break their necks surfing in Tahiti and all this stuff because they're the heaviest waves in the world.

南太平洋头真是又高又猛，你知道，就像在塔希提岛， 人们冲时常常摔断脖子， 因为那里是世界上最凶猛。

It was kind of a moment of relief that we thought, oh, finally he's listening to us and we like slow down a little and we're not bouncing over the waves anymore.

那刻让我们松了口气，心想，哦，终于他开始听我们了， 我们可以稍微慢点， 不再在头上颠簸了。

And then up you came, climbing up another roller, over the top, crashing down the other side.

然后你又上升，爬上了另头，越过顶峰，又从另边摔落下来。