After this, it cost me a month to shape it, and dub it to a proportion, and to something like the bottom of a boat, that it might swim upright as it ought to do.

• 然后,又花了一个多月的时间又砍又削,最后刮出了船底的形状,使其下水后能浮在水上。这时,树干已砍削得初具船的形状了。