As twilight drew on, the ferryboat went back to her accustomed business and the skiffs disappeared.

天快黑的时候，渡船又回到它常去的地方，小船也不见了。

Nearer the hospital, five men in overalls are winching rubble from the shipyard where they used to make 50 aluminum skiffs a year for the scallop trade.

在离医院更近的地方，五个身穿工作服的工人正在用绞车清理船厂里的碎石块，为了扇贝贸易，他们曾经在这里以年均50条的速度生产铝制小艇。

Only a long line of skiffs sat tethered to shore.

只有一长排的小艇停靠在河岸边。

On one level, the barge and the skiffs are very archaic.

在一个方面，驳船与小船是十分古老的。

So what if a few Robin Hoods in skiffs nick the odd tanker off the Horn of Africa?

因此，当一些驾着小艇的新罗宾汉们将在非洲角附近落单的油轮偷走之后，会发生什么事情呢？

They live in about 50 homes clustered around a central pond where wooden skiffs bob.

这里约有五十户人家，房屋环抱池塘而立，木舟摇曳池中。

We lowered two red skiffs from our research vessel, loaded our diving gear, and sped off toward the lagoon.

我们从科考船上降下两艘红色小艇，装上我们的潜水装备，朝环礁湖飞驰而去。

Another village has set up an enterprising share scheme to finance new oyster beds and skiffs to work them.

另一村庄已经建立了颇有进取心的股份计划来资助新的蚝床和为其服务的小船。

In the 1970s, skiffs with white sails still languidly glided by while barefooted boat trackers trudged along the sandy verges.

上世纪70年代，白色的帆船慢悠悠地在水上滑行，光着脚的纤夫迈着沉重的步子走在河边的沙地上。

Many still fish from open skiffs, and – on Stromboli – they live in tiny cubic houses, all the better for riding out the tremors.

留下的人性格更加冷漠，许多人仍驾小船捕鱼，在斯特罗伯利地区住在小木屋里，便于地震时逃身。

Rats, the sole occupants of one rocky islet, are so ravenous that seasonal fishermen sleep in their skiffs, afraid to languish ashore.

在某一遍布岩石的岛屿，岛上唯一的居民老鼠四处肆虐，让经验丰富的渔民都不敢躺在岸边，只能在船上休憩。

The pirates use fast-moving skiffs to pull alongside their prey and scamper on board with ladders or sometimes even rusty grappling hooks.

海盗们通常驾驶机动性很强的快艇迅速接近目标，利用梯子——有时候甚至用锈迹斑斑的锚钩——爬上甲板。

The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there.

河滩荒僻，没有一个过路人；这里那里停泊着的驳船上也没有船夫，也没有装卸工人。

The hijackers are able to operate so far out to sea because they are using captured "mother ships" from which they launch high-powered skiffs.

劫持者有能力在离岸如此遥远的海域活动是因为他们利用之前劫持来的“母体船只”出海并从船上放下高速帆船。

Skiffs that once plied the lowland waters lie dry and splintering and ducks wallow in fetid green ponds that pocket the maze of feeder streams.

以前可以在低水区划船的地方现在已经干旱并且裂开了，鸭子沉湎于发臭的绿色的池塘里，吃着里面的乱七八糟的食物。

Shortly after the call to prayer sounds from the lakeshore shrine, farmers and traders cast off on narrow skiffs to truck, barter and exchange.

湖畔神庙的唤拜声响过不久，农民和商贩在窄窄的小船上便把缆绳解开，买卖，易货，交换。

"The aircraft spotted at least four pirates on the deck and the vessel is towing two skiffs. It was last reported heading west towards the Somali coast," he said.

他说：“飞机在甲板上发现了至少四名海盗，另外该船还拖引着两只小船。最后一次报道说该船沿索马里海岸线向西航行”。

The pirates' methods remain rudimentary. They use hijacked tuna-fishing boats or local dhows as the mother ship, then launch attacks from skiffs, usually at dawn or dusk.

海盗们的战略还停留在初级：他们使用捕鱼船或者单桅帆船作为其母船，然后通常在拂晓或傍晚时乘坐快艇实施登船袭击。

Just about everything you need to know about how money is made and lost is encapsulated4 in the daily battles between cargo captains and the pirate skiffs in the Somali basin.

在索马里海盆，货轮船长和海盗的小艇每天上演的战斗，浓缩了所有关于如何赚到金钱，又如何损失金钱的事情。