I live next to a shipplant. I know about the price to build ships. A 30-meter long ship costs 17 million yuan? Is it plated with gold?
老子家就在船厂旁，大概的造价是知道的三十来米长的内陆船一千七百万？贴金呀？
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How do you take plant fibers that individually you could break with your hands and turn them into a rope that's strong enough to moor a ship that weighs thousands of tons?
你如何将植物纤维一个个地用手折断，然后把它们变成一根足够结实到可以系住一艘重达数千吨的船的绳子呢？
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When I was ten, I wanted to work on my father's ship. When Thomas was ten, he asked me to let him plant the corn.