The boatman refused to row him back.

那船夫拒绝划船送他回去。

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I met the boatman who then took me across the ferry.

我遇到了那位船夫，他将我渡到对岸。

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Mentions the boatman worker's chant, our young friend possibly not too understood.

说起船工号子，我们年轻的朋友可能不太了解。

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The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck;

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The pole pierces the water film, the muscle balls in the boatman's arm, the veins swell .

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Rounding a bend, de Souza motioned the boatman to slow down as the river became narrow, the jungle thick and verdant.

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The boatman blurted out a question to my local friends, in which I caught two words that could only apply to me: chul and lal.

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