But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down-stream amazingly rapid.

然而，水流冲击让他们回岸的过程非常地缓慢，顺流而下的速度倒是非常的快。

A taxi curved to the landing stage, unloaded, went back shorewards. Red held his speedboat idling just beyond the weep of the searchlight. If they lifted it a few feet, just for fun-but they didn't.

一辆出租车弯向着陆台，卸下货物，朝岸边开去。雷德让他的快艇空转，就在探照灯的哭声之外。如果他们将它举起几英尺，只是为了好玩——但他们没有。

I believe, but I am not sure, that I uttered a cry. The wind was driving the hat shoreward, and I ran round the border of the floe to be ready against its arrival.

我相信，但我不确定，我发出了哭声。风把帽子吹向岸边，我绕过浮冰的边界，准备迎接它的到来。

There was no time for observation, however, for in a moment the shoreward rush began, and before she could grasp her traveling bag, Jamie was clinging to her like an ecstatic young bear.

然而，没有时间观察了，因为转眼间开始向岸边冲去，在她抓起她的旅行包之前，杰米像一只狂喜的小熊一样紧紧地抓住了她。

The lad insisted on being always at her side, and when at last she was safely ensconced in the bottom of the craft that was to bear them shoreward her grandson dropped catlike after her.

小伙子坚持要一直陪在她身边，当她终于安全地躲在准备载他们上岸的小艇底部时，她的孙子像猫一样跟在她身后。