We sat tight and waited to be rescued.

我们守在原地，等待救援。

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They climbed onto the upturned hull and waited to be rescued.

他们爬上了倾覆的船体，等候救援。

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He got into difficulties while swimming and had to be rescued.

他游泳时遇险，只好靠人营救。

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Well, the moral logic of the situation seems to be that, that they would keep on picking off the weakest maybe, one by one, until they were rescued.

这情形的道德逻辑似乎是这样，就是他们一直拣软柿子捏，逐个杀掉，直至获救。

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Regulators have a tight grip on CIT, owing to its need to be rescued last year.

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Yet many US banks and other financial firms had to be rescued in 2008.

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