For a long moment the young man stood half way down the bank, gazing at the bay furrowed with the coming and going of sailboats, yacht-launches, fishing-craft and the trailing black coal-barges hauled by noisy tugs.

很长一段时间， 年轻人站在岸边的一半，凝视着海湾， 帆船来来往往， 游艇下水道， 渔船和嘈杂的拖船拖着尾随的黑色运煤驳船。