Your correspondent experienced a moment of terror when a hippo leapt off the bank and over the prow of the canoe in front .
笔者经历过这种恐怖的阵仗:一头河马从河岸上跳下来,冲着独木舟船头游了过来。
A year or two later , I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island .
一年或两年后,我在岛的另一侧又造了一只独木舟。
The exquisite balance required for paddlers of a racing canoe or kayak means that those first exposed to the sport as young as 10 can have a lasting edge .
划艇或皮艇运动员需要有精密的平衡感,这意味着在10岁时第一次接触这项运动的孩子能拥有持久的优势。
Felix aquila sets out in a canoe on a voyage of discovery and finds london " utterly extinct " , surviving only as a pestilential swamp .
That is not an example of overinvestment ( crusoe did need a canoe ) , but " malinvestment " .
这不是过度投资(鲁滨逊需要独木舟),但是是无效投资。
His stanley steamer rocket was 16 feet long and 3 feet wide , and had it not been for the wheels , spectators may have mistaken the thing for an upside-down canoe , especially since it was sitting next to the water .