Postcards always spoil my holidays.

明信片总搅得我假日不得安宁。

Some fishermen are unlucky.

有些垂钓者就是不走运，

Before he retired, Frank was the head of a very large business company, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop.

在退休前，弗兰克是一家非常大的商业公司的经理，但他小时候却在一家小铺里做工。

Glancing at the bits of wood and metal that lay around him,

年轻人看了一眼周围的碎木片和碎金属片，

Since then, they have been trying to find out how the fire began.

从那时起，他们一直试图找出起火的原因。

He hitchhiked to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep.

他搭便车到了多佛，天快黑时钻进了一条船，想找个地方睡觉。