He went in the hopefulness of youthful ambition,

带着充满希望的野心
thinking the journey would make a man of him.

憧憬此次征程能将他铸造成为男人
Sadly, it was not to be.

然而事与愿违
The facts of the case were not in dispute.

这则案例的实际情况毫无争议
Wave hit the ship,and Mignonette went down.

大浪导致翻船 "木犀草号"沉没
The four crew members escaped to a lifeboat.

四人逃上了救生艇
The only food they had were two cans of preserved turnips, no fresh water.

仅有的食物就是两罐腌萝卜没有淡水
For the first three days, they ate nothing.

头三天他们什么也没吃
On the fourth day, they opened one of the cans of turnips and ate it.

第四天他们开了一罐腌萝卜来吃
The next day they caught a turtle.

第五天他们抓到了一只海龟
Together with the other can of turnips,

就着另一罐腌萝卜
the turtle enabled them to subsist for the next few days.

这只海龟让他们又撑了几天