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A Ship and a Man

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SEEING a ship sailing by upon the sea of politics, an Ambitious
Person started in hot pursuit along the strand¹; but the people's
eyes being fixed² upon the Presidency³ no one observed the pursuer.
This greatly annoyed him, and recollecting⁴ that he was not aquatic⁵,
he stopped and shouted across the waves' tumultous roar:

"Take my name off the passenger list."

Back to him over the waters, hollow and heartless, like laughter in
a tomb, rang the voice of the Skipper:

"'T ain't on!"

And there, in the focus of a million pairs of convergent⁶ eyes, the
Ambitious Person sat him down between the sun and moon and murmured
sadly to his own soul:

"Marooned⁷, by thunder!"

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1 strand
vt.使（船）搁浅，使（某人）困于（某地）
参考例句：
She tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ears.她把一缕散发夹到了耳后。 The climbers had been stranded by a storm.登山者被暴风雨困住了。

2 fixed
adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的
参考例句：
Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？ Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

3 presidency
n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)
参考例句：
Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。 Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

4 recollecting
v.记起，想起( recollect的现在分词 )
参考例句：
Once wound could heal slowly, my Bo Hui was recollecting. 曾经的伤口会慢慢地愈合，我卜会甾回忆。来自互联网 I am afraid of recollecting the life of past in the school. 我不敢回忆我在校过去的生活。来自互联网

5 aquatic
adj.水生的，水栖的
参考例句：
Aquatic sports include swimming and rowing.水上运动包括游泳和划船。 We visited an aquatic city in Italy.我们在意大利访问过一个水上城市。

6 convergent
adj.会聚的
参考例句：
A curved-inwards wall has a convergent effect on wall spray.凹型壁面对碰壁喷雾有聚集作用。 If a sequence is not convergent,it is divergent.如果一个序列不收敛，我们称它发散。

7 marooned
adj.被围困的；孤立无援的；无法脱身的
参考例句：
During the storm we were marooned in a cabin miles from town. 在风暴中我们被围困在离城数英里的小屋内。来自《现代英汉综合大词典》 Five couples were marooned in their caravans when the River Avon broke its banks. 埃文河决堤的时候，有5对夫妇被困在了他们的房车里。来自辞典例句

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