So they got as much stout canvas as would make a double covering for their little skiff; and, in order to make it watertight, they first soaked it in tallow, and then covered it with pitch.

所以他们找到了尽可能多的粗糙的帆布双层覆盖着他们的小划艇。为了让它不漏，他们先把它浸泡在油脂里，然后又涂了一层沥青。

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

头上系着几只小平底船和小艇。

Now the man watched the dip of the three sticks over the side of the skiff and rowed gently to keep the lines straight up and down and at their proper depths.

这时老人紧盯着那三根挑出在小船一边的钓竿，看看有没有动静，一边缓缓地划着，使钓索保持上下笔直，停留在适当的底深处。

In addition to me, the skiff carried Captain Nemo, two crewmen, and the instruments-in other words, a chronometer, a spyglass, and a barometer.

小艇载了我和尼船长，两个船员，以及仪器，即航海时计、望远镜和晴雨表。

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·朗特里乘坐小艇航行在秘鲁亚马逊河上。

He held the line against his back and watched its slant in the water and the skiff moving steadily to the north-west.

他攥住了勒在背脊上的钓索，紧盯着它直斜去，小船呢，不停地朝西北方驶去。

But the wind was blowing a strong gust, and the furious billows would not allow us to face them in a mere skiff.

但是海风吹得厉害，汹涌的波浪不容许一只小艇去冒险。

He only noticed how lightly and how well the skiff sailed now there was no great weight beside her.

他只留意到船舷边没有什么沉重的东西，小船这时驶来多么轻松，多么出色。

Was the Nautilus being dragged into this whirlpool just as the skiff was about to detach from its plating?

就在我们的小艇要脱离“鹦鹉螺号”船身时，“鹦鹉螺号”被卷入了漩流吗？

A small bird came toward the skiff from the north.

一只小鸟从北方朝小船飞来。

The skiff couldn't avoid the collision. Half overturned, it shipped a ton or two of water that we had to bail out.

小艇不可能躲开它的冲撞，艇身翻倒了一半，海跑进艇有一两吨之多。

Many fishermen were around the skiff looking at what was lashed beside it and one was in the water, his trousers rolled up, measuring the skeleton with a length of line.

许多渔夫围着那条小船，看着绑在船旁的东西，有一渔夫卷起了裤腿站在里，用一根钓索在量那死鱼的残骸。

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

桨划了几下，小艇就到了沙滩上，搁浅下来。

I stared at my companions. They were armed in the same fashion, and Ned Land was also brandishing an enormous harpoon he had stowed in the skiff before leaving the Nautilus.

我看看我的同伴。他们跟我一样拿着短刀，此外，尼德·兰用手挥动一把鱼叉，这叉是他离开诺第留斯号之前放在小艇的。

He heard the stick break and the line begin to rush out over the gunwale of the skiff.

他听见钓竿啪的折断了，于是那根钓索越过船舷朝外直溜。

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

吉尔伯特跳进他的小艇，脸颊上带着愤怒的颜色。

An immense, breakaway piece of B-15, reachable from their position by skiff.

一块巨大的、从B-15冰山断裂下来的冰块，他们可以乘坐小艇到达。

Did you get out of your were you in a skiff or something?

你是乘小船还是别的什么交通工具出来的？

The specific documentation I would have to talk to you in a skiff about.

具体的文件内容，我得和你到小艇上详谈。

For now, Tony and Luciano go out in their little skiff, as they have for so many years, to collect dozens more of these colorful fish… And if it ends for them?

现在，Tony 和 Luciano 开着他们的小船出海，就像他们多年来所做的那样，去收集更多这些五颜六色的鱼… … 如果他们结束了呢？