All he had left now was a sheet of the beautiful brown paper Pa had brought back from his last sailing trip.
现在他只剩下一张爸爸上次航海旅行带回来的漂亮的牛皮纸。
2
"As soon as you come sailingback in it," said he, "you shall have my daughter for wife."
“你驾着这条船回来的时候，”他说，“你就可以娶我的女儿为妻了。”
3
It helps that there are lots of almost empty container ships sailingback to Asia after unloading consumer goods in Europe and America: they will usually carry secondhand paper and plastic for a song.