Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive, it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.

尽管他们的离职与公司随后的糟糕业绩之间存在相关性，但这并不总是意味着这些董事一走了之的是一家濒临倒闭的公司。

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A large ship broke down in the river, leaving at least 100 big ships unable to pass.

一艘大船在河里抛锚，造成至少100艘大船无法通过。

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And if I want to spend more time there, I'm out of luck because the ship is soon leaving.

又如我想在那里呆久一点，但是我就没有那福气了，因为船很快就会出发。

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An Indian frigate battled a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, leaving the ship ablaze and likely sunk, the country's defense ministry reported.

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The weak signal can cause a ship's instruments to gradually drift out of true, without setting off any alarms, leaving the ship in a different position to where it "thinks" it is.

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"It would be a case of the captain leaving a sinking ship, " is the way he put it to reporters at the Kuala Lumpur press conference where he laid out rescue plans for the company.

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