No sort of afterlife tempted him, he had no belief in one; but he very much liked a story by Marguerite Yourcenar in which a man built a boat and set out into infinity.

他也没有想过身后名声之类的，也不相信谁。不过，他倒是很喜欢玛格丽特·尤瑟纳尔讲的一个故事，讲有一个男人，造了一艘船，就这样开到无边无际的地方去了。

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Suddenly, one of the children kicked a ball very hard and it went towards a passing boat. Some people on the bank called out to the man in the boat, but he did not hear them.

突然，一个孩子狠狠地踢了一脚球，球便向着一只划过来的小船飞去。岸上的一些人对着小船上的人高喊，但他没有听见。

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The service dealt with 60 incidents on Monday, including rescuing nine people from stranded vehicles and one man from a stranded boat in York.

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