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Ahh, a life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep! Where the scatter’d waters rave, and the winds their revels keep!
啊，大洋上的人生！滑动的桨是我的家！无垠的水在咆哮，无边的风在狂欢！

When the stresses of land-life get too much - the constant grind of mining, collecting resources, smelting them, and filing them into a series of carefully-sorted chests ('Ignore Duncan, kids! Minecraft is great! Buy ten more copies!' - panicking marketing team) - the best medicine is our item of the week. Craft up a boat, grab a few supplies and your favourite pig, and set sail for shores anew.
长时间呆在陆地上难免会令人焦虑—日复一日的挖矿，采集资源，煅烧，然后再把物品仔细的放到精心分类过的箱子里。（“别听邓肯胡说，小子！我的世界多好啊！再买十份吧！慌张的市场团队如是说道。”）对于枯燥的生活，最好的良药就是本周的背包盘点物品啦。造一艘船，带上物资和你最喜欢的猪，然后让我们扬帆起航吧。

Boats were added to Minecraft alongside cacti in Alpha version 1.0.6, way back in 2010. They’re made with five planks arranged around the bottom of a crafting grid, plus a spade if you’re playing on Bedrock edition. Once you’re holding your finished boat, all you need to do to deploy it is to hit the use item button when facing some water. Splash!
船是和仙人掌一块在2010年Alpha1.0.6版本中就加入到了游戏之中。在合成栏里用五块木板围住下半圈，便能合成一艘船。在基岩版中还需要加一把锹。当你手里拿着完工的船后，你只需要对着水按下使用键就能放置啦。哗啦！

Once it’s bobbing about, ready to go, a second tap of the use button will sit you inside. You can then use the normal movement controls to pootle around to your heart’s content - much faster than walking. When you reach your destination you can get out again by hitting “sneak”, and retrieve the boat by attacking it until it drops. Take THAT you lousy boat! That’ll teach you to be a convenient and wistful form of oceanic transport!
当船停靠港岸后，只需要再按一下使用键就能坐进去了。随后你便可以用移动操控按键来达成在水上风驰电掣的愿望了—这可比走路快多了！当你抵达了目的地，按下潜行键就能脱离船只啦。不停的攻击船就能使之变成物品掉落，随后纳入物品栏。接招吧你这破船！这样你就能乖乖听话，做一个令人爱不释手的海上交通工具了！

One thing worth knowing is that using a boat doesn’t deplete your hunger meter. This makes it a very handy way to travel long distances, especially if you don’t have any food handy. If you know you’re never going to use the boat again, you can also use it as fuel in a furnace, or sell it to a fisherman villager.
值得一提的是，坐在船上时你不会消耗饥饿值。因此船是一个非常便利的长途跋涉工具，尤其是在你食物短缺的时候。要是你知道你这辈子再也不会用到船了，那你也可以拿它来当熔炉的燃料，抑或是卖给渔夫。

Humans have been building and using boats since prehistoric times. The earliest mariners that we have evidence of lived between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago on the islands of what is now Indonesia. Carved stone tools, made of non-local materials, have been found on the island of Flores - which was separated at the time from other populated islands by a 11.4-mile-wide strait.
人类在史前时代就已经开始建造船只了。早在800000万到900000万年前，我们就在现印度尼西亚的一个小岛上发现了船夫的痕迹。弗洛勒斯岛上也发现了不是用本地材料制作的石器，而是取自相隔11.4英里海峡的邻岛。

The earliest actual boat that archaeologists have found is the Pesse Canoe - crafted from a hollowed-out tree trunk in what is now the Netherlands, about 8,000 years ago. Ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean made wide use of boats for trade and exploration.
考古学家目前所发现的最古老的庇斯独木舟，是在8000年前的荷兰用一个掏空的树干制成的。地中海附近的古文明广泛使用船只来进行交易和探索。

Today, human civilization is totally reliant on boats - well, ships. Global distribution networks use cargo ships to transport everything from raw materials and food to chemicals and manufactured products. Naval power is vital to the militaries of coastal countries, and their fishing fleets are vital for their economies.
当今人类文明已经和船只密不可分了，好吧，是和轮船密不可分。货轮运载着原材料，食物，化学品和各类产品送往各处，形成了全球的海洋物流网络。海军是保护沿海国家的重要力量， 捕鱼舰队更是支撑起沿海国家经济的支柱。

So next time you’re planning a long journey of exploration in Minecraft, take a boat with you! Just watch out for lily pads, or you’ll be treading water faster than you can say “well that was a titanic success”.
所以下次你要是打算在我的世界里远足的话，记得带一艘船！但是小心那些荷叶，不然你可能连“这真是一个巨大的成功”这句话都没说完就要游泳了。

【丶路人甲 译自官网 2019 年 10 月 04 日发布的 Taking Inventory: Boat；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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