1. One afternoon she set out from the coast in a small boat and was caught in a storm.
一天下午，她乘小船从海岸出发，遇上了一场风暴。
知识点1：one afternoon 某一个下午
知识点2：was caught in 被卷入
2. Then she swam to the shore after spending the whole night in the water.
她在海里游了整整一夜才游到岸边。
知识点1：after在此为介词，所以后接动名词spending。
重要语法：after/before加动名词作状语，其逻辑主语一定要与主句的主语相同。例：After walking down the street,be turned left and disappeared.
在走到街尾时，他向左转，然后消失了。
Before leaving for Shanghai, I washed my bedsheet.
在去上海之前，我把床单洗了。
3. She knew she was near the shore because the light was high up on the cliffs.
她知道已经接近岸边了，因为那灯光是在高高的峭壁上。
知识点：本句句式结构:She was near the shore为宾语从句，because引导原因状语从句。
4. On arriving at the shore, the girl struggled up the cliff towards the light she had seen.
到达岸边后，姑娘朝着她看到的灯光方向挣扎着往峭壁上爬去。
知识点1：she had seen定语从句相当于light的后置定语。
知识点：2 on + doing = as soon as 一……就
On seeing the nice girl, he did not know what to do.
一见到这个可爱的女孩，他就不知所措了。
