I am a hearty seafaring type of individual,（我是个酷爱航海的人）so recently I spent a week sailing around the sea aboard the largest cruise (海上航游) ship in the world that has not yet hit an iceberg. It is called the Voyager, and it weighs 140,000 tons, which is approximately the amount I ate in desserts alone.（跟我从小到大吃的甜食总重量差不多）
    The Voyager sails out of Miami every week carrying 3,200 passengers determined to relax or dying to relax. The ship has (I am not making any of this up) （不是我吹）a large theater, a shopping center, a rock-climbing wall and a nine-hole miniature（小规模的） golf course. We have come a long way indeed from the days when the Pilgrims（朝圣者） crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower, which — hard as it is to imagine today — had no shopping center and only four golf holes.
    While aboard the ship, we passengers engaged in a wide range of traditional cruise ship activities, including eating breakfast, snacking, eating lunch, drinking while lying on deck absorbing solar radiation until we glowed (油光满面) like exit signs, snacking some more, eating dinner, eating more snacks and passing out face-down in the midnight buffet. Needless to say I did not attempt to climb the rock wall, which is good because the resulting disaster would have made for a chilling newspaper headline: CRUISE SHIP EVACUATED (疏散) AS MAN FALLS, EXPLODES!