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

对于一个投资者来说，没有什么事情比也看到一个朋友变富有人赏心悦目了.每一个人想去赶浪头.

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.

她的母亲为她安排了一桩有权势的婚姻，这段婚姻把她推到了法国大革命的风口浪头，使她成为皇室挥霍无度的终极代表。

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

鹈鹕漂浮在浪头上，成群的海鸥和一只长鹰在它们头上盘旋着。

With each wave, more water slopped into the cabin.

【slop】随着一个个浪头打来，多的水漫进了船舱。

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.

但我已经像一个被海浪冲刷过的，建造得离浪头太近的沙滩城堡，我的位置已经被一个人们认为的我所取代。

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

每一个浪头的顶端一座小山，人们从那能看到一片波光粼粼的大海。

And we might see white caps.

我们只会看到浪头白沫。

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

浪头洁白，狂暴地冲着敞着的小船。每个人认为，每个浪后一个浪。

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.

坐在船上就像坐在一匹野马上，每个浪头打来，小船就起起落落，像一匹马朝着高得跳不动的篱笆跑去。

Oh, a wave just washed him in.

哦，一个浪头把他冲上岸了。

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.

瓦希尼告诉我一件事，我之前并不知情：几年前在提阿胡普的女性比赛中，他们实际上停止让女性冲浪者挑战这个浪头， 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.

冲浪者们竞相比赛并下注，看谁能滑得远、快，或抓住大的浪头，卓越的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·帕森斯冲浪的场景，那可有史以来拍摄到的大浪头之一。

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

突然，毫无预兆地，一个巨大的浪头从他一侧腾起，远比其他浪头为庞大。

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的浪头，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, 又一个浪头将我淹没。

And this is just one of many waves, right?

这只众多浪头之一，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.

南太平洋的浪头真又高又猛，你知道的，就像在塔希提岛， 人们冲浪时常常摔断脖子， 因为那里的浪世界上凶猛的。

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.

那一刻让我们松了口气，心想，哦，终于他开始听我们的了， 我们可以稍微慢一点， 不再在浪头上颠簸了。

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

然后你又上升，爬上了另一个浪头，越过顶峰，又从另一边摔落下来。