It was just after the Jap air raiding, and things were pretty grim.

袭刚刚结束，形势严峻。

I saw through the periscope a Jap destroyer escort, a tanker, and a minelayer.

我通过潜望镜到了一艘驱逐舰护航舰、一艘油轮和一艘布雷舰。

Through a green gate I saw a Jap gardener at work weeding a huge lawn.

透过一扇绿色的大门， 我到一个园丁正在为一大片草坪除草。

For fifteen hours, that Jap minelayer kept dropping depth charges.

十五个小时以来，那个布雷艇一直在投下深水炸弹。

He was pulling a piece of weed out of the vast velvet expanse and sneering at it the way Jap gardeners do.

他从广阔的天鹅绒一根杂草， 像园丁那样嘲笑它。

And he answered, unlocking his door: " Because I traveled with him from Shanghai to Honolulu in a Jap liner last November" .

他打开门回答说：“因为去年 11 月我和他一起乘坐班轮从上海到火奴鲁鲁” 。

(A Jap plane had spotted us under sixty feet of water and had radioed our position to the Jap minelayer.) We went down to 150 feet, to avoid detection, and rigged for a depth charge.

（一架飞机在 60 英尺深的水下发现了我们， 并通过无线电将我们的位置报告给了布雷舰。）我们下降到 150 英尺， 以避免被发现， 并安装了深水炸弹。