少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 63

Chapter 63,The Robertson family survived thirty-eight days at sea. Captain Bligh of the celebrated ¹ mutinous ² Bounty ³ and his fellow castaways survived forty-seven days. Steven Callahan survived seventy-six. Owen Chase, whose account of the sinking of the whaling ship Essex by a whale inspired Herman Melville, survived eighty-three days at sea with two mates, interrupted by a one-week stay on an inhospitable island. The Bailey family survived 118 days. I have heard of a Korean merchant sailor named Poon, I believe, who survived the Pacific for 173 days in the 1950s.,I survived 227 days. That's how long my trial lasted, over seven months.,I kept myself busy. That was one key to my survival. On a lifeboat, even on a raft, there's always something that needs doing. An average day for me, if such a notion can be applied ⁴ to a castaway, went like this:,Sunrise to mid-morning:,- wake up,- breakfast for Richard Parker,- general inspection ⁵ of raft and lifeboat, with particular attention paid to all knots and ropes,- tending of solar stills (wiping, inflating ⁶, topping off with water),- breakfast and inspection of food stores,- fishing and preparing of fish if any caught (gutting, cleaning, hanging of strips of flesh on lines to cure in the sun),The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。,The mutinous sailors took control of the ship.反叛的水手们接管了那艘船 。