He appeared to be seventy years old, but he was really fifty.

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By now the cabin boy, Parker, is lying at the bottom of the lifeboat in the corner because he had drunk seawater against the advice of the others and he had become ill and he appeared to be dying.

现在派克正蜷缩在救生艇的角落,因为他不顾众人劝阻饮用了海水,他生病了，而且似乎快死了。

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