The ocean was spread out before me, interrupted only by a tiny island here and there. The water's surface was choppy with whitecaps and it looked dark and mysterious.

大海在我眼前展开，只被或这或那的一些极小的岛所隔断，水面翻着浪花，水色深暗神秘。

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This big ship here was the one sailed in by Zheng he in the early 15th century on his great voyages around the South China Sea, the East China Sea and across the Indian Ocean to East Africa.

这儿的大船是在15世纪早期郑和下西洋时航行的船，它穿过中国东海，南海然后穿行印度洋到达东非。

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Land here is limited in all directions: by the Mexican border to the south, the ocean to the west, the Marine base at Camp Pendleton to the north, and the Cleveland National Forest east of the city.

这里的土地四处都是有限的：南部墨西哥边境，西部沿海地区，北部潘德尔顿海军基地，东部克里佛兰国家森林公园。

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In Brazil, the story is that we are happy to fund their drilling in the Atlantic Ocean but not willing to drill here (which is completely false, by the way).

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