" But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days" .

" 我讨厌你说起话来像个高贵的绅士，仿佛女人都是高贵的淑女，一点也不通情达理似的。 我们谁也不期待一生一世都万事如意。"

Ships, certainly, are liable to casualties, which sometimes make terribly evident some flaw in their construction that would never have been discoverable in smooth water; and many a " good fellow, " through a disastrous combination of circumstances, has undergone a like betrayal.

船舶当然容易发生人员伤亡，这有时会非常明显地表明其结构中的某些缺陷，而这些缺陷在平静的水中是永远不会被发现的；许多“好人”经历了灾难性的环境组合，经历了类似的背叛。