The skiff headed southward. The oarsmen took their time.

小艇向南驶去，艇中的潜水人并不急子下水。

Each boat is manned by ten oarsmen and ten fishermen.

每只船有十个划船手和十个采珠人。

" It's there, " Lewys said. " Four oarsmen. The galley is anchored just past the point. Mad Prendos" .

" 在那儿，" 林斯道，" 四个桨手。大船则泊于陆岬之旁，名叫‘疯狂普兰多号’。"

" No talk" ! the oarsman growled again. " Sound carries over water, Ser Fool" .

" 别说话！" 船夫咆哮，" 声音会制造波纹，小丑爵士。"

" Your oarsman winkled you and threw your letter in the sea" .

" 你的桨手把你耍了，他将你的信扔进了海里。"

" Little Narbo wants to be an oarsman, " Cat told them. " If you got him, you'd have six" .

" 小纳博想当桨手，" 猫儿告诉他们，" 你们有了他，就是六个。"

That all changed when Yale issued a challenge to Harvard “to test the superiority of the oarsmen of the two colleges.”

当耶鲁向哈佛发出挑战以“检验哪个学校的划手更有优势”的时候，所有这 一切都改变了。

Thirty-five year old Chum Chhorvy is an oarsman and team leader who has trained hard for this year's races.

35岁的查姆·超为是一名划桨运动员和领队，他为今年的比赛刻苦训练。

" The Drowned God needed a strong oarsman, I fear, " replied the stocky man with the white streak in his beard.

" 唉，恐怕淹神老爷急着要个好桨手哪，" 那矮小身材，胡子半白的男人答道。

Men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.

西顿和亚发的居民作你荡桨的。推罗啊，你中间的智慧人作掌舵的。

Growler and Masher, the two oarsmen, made straight for the opposite bank, a little to the left of the casino.

咆哮者和马舍尔这两个桨手径直朝对岸、赌场左边一点的地方驶去。

How is it, that you, a mere oarsman in the fishery, pretend to know aught about the subterranean parts of the whale?

怎么可能，你，捕鲸业中一个区区桨手，竟要装作懂得鲸鱼所有的秘密部位？

Your oarsmen take you out to the high seas. But the east wind will break you to pieces far out at sea.

荡桨的已经把你荡到大水之处，东风在海中将你打破。

I know thirty new things, she almost said. " Three of Little Narbo's fingers will not bend. He means to be an oarsman" .

我多了解到三十件事，她差点说出口。" 小纳博的三根手指无法弯曲。他想当桨手。"

" We shall strive to make up in drunkenness what we lack in oarsmen, " declared Myrmello. " I for one am equal to the task" .

" 桨手人数不足，只好用醉酒的程度弥补，" 弥尔梅罗宣称，" 比如我就能胜任。"

" Daena was old King Baelor's wife, " said the oarsman. " I rowed on a ship named for her once. The Princess Daena" .

" 戴安娜是老国王贝勒的老婆，" 桨手纠正，" 我在一艘以她命名的船上划过桨，‘戴安娜公主号’。"

Just like warships, merchant ships used oarsmen, but coordinating the hundreds of rowers in both types of ship was not an easy task.

和军舰一样， 商船也有桨手，但要协调两艘船上的数百名桨手， 可不是一件容易的事。

" Take her on as cabin girl, " said a passing oarsman, a bolt of wool over one shoulder. " She can sleep with me" .

" 把她当船妓带上，" 一名路过的桨手说，他肩扛一捆羊毛布，" 她可以跟我睡。"

Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope's final end flew out of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths.

紧接着，捕鲸索末端沉重的索眼从空荡荡的索桶里飞了出去，抽倒了一个桨手，重重地打在海面上，消失在大海深处。

Francis Macomber was very tall, very well built if you did not mind that length of bone, dark, his hair cropped like an oarsman, rather thin-lipped, and was considered handsome.

弗朗西斯·麦康伯个子很高，要是你不计较他骨架的长短，他算得上身材匀称，皮肤黑黪黪，头发剪得象一个桨手那样短，嘴唇相当薄；他被人认为长得漂亮。