马克吐温《威尼斯的小艇》的英文原文

Venice boat

Venice is a world-famous water city, rivers criss cross, boat into the main means of transport, equal to the street car.

Venice boat is twenty or thirty feet long, narrow and deep, a bit like a canoe. The bow and stern up like new moon hanging in the sky, as if the action is agile, the ditch water snakes.

We sat in the cabin, as soft as general sofa leather cushion. A boat through different forms of stone. We opened the curtains, looked at the stands on both sides of the ancient buildings, to greet the traffic, have lots of fun.

The driving technology is particularly good. Sailing speed, ship a lot, he did not have an easy control in the matter, rush. No matter how crowded, he can always turn left turn right to push past. Have a very narrow place, he can smoothly pass through, and the speed is very fast, but also as a sharp turn. The buildings on both sides of the building generally backwards, our eyes are very busy, I do not know which one is good.

With a bag of goods merchant, hurried down the boat along the river to do business. A young woman in a boat to laugh loudly. Many children from the nanny with, sitting in a boat to the countryside to breathe the fresh air. The old man took a solemn family, holding the Bible, sitting in a boat to go to church to pray.

At midnight, the theatres, a large group of people hold out, go on their boat. Clustered together the boat soon spread, disappeared in the bend of the river, heard a voice laughing and farewell. On the surface of the water is gradually silent, I saw the moon's shadow shaking in the water. Tall stone buildings stand in the river, the old bridge across the water, large and small boats are parked on the pier. Silence enveloped the city on the water, the ancient Venice and fell asleep.