But she left her 'working' attitude and curled like a school-girl in the bow of the canoe, her elbows resting on her paddle which she had flung across the gunwales.

但她放弃了“工作”的态度，像个女学生一样蜷缩在独木舟的船头，手肘搁在她扔过舷缘的船桨上。