After it is light, he thought, I will work back to the forty-fathom bait and cut it away too and link up the reserve coils.

• 等天亮了，他想，我要好歹回到那根把鱼饵放在水下四十英寻深处的钓索边，把它也割断了，连结在那些备用钓索卷儿上。