It might seem unreasonable that expectations about possible events can drive prices up, but consider the situation of people in a lifeboat on the open ocean.

对可能发生事件的预测会驱使价格上涨看起来很不切实际，但考虑下在宽阔的海洋上，人们在救生艇中这样一个情况。

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People were swimming in the ocean despite the hurricane warning.

尽管有飓风警报，人们仍然在大海里游泳。

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The notion is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past.

这种观点认为，人们之所以没有察觉到海洋中发生的巨大变化，是因为他们用于回顾过去的时间相对较短。

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Sri Lanka is an island of twenty-one million people in the Indian Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Clinton arrived late Friday in a heavy rain at the Taj Palace Hotel on Mumbai's ocean front, which was one of the targets of Pakistan-based terrorists who killed 166 people in a coordinated series of attacks in the Indian business capital last November.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17

The Ocean Challenge Badge is designed to help educate children and young people about the vital role the ocean plays in supporting life on Earth.

UNESCO: Associated Schools Programme (ASPNet)

After Labor won power in 2007 it closed the camps and processed boat people on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, as well as on the mainland.

ECONOMIST: The prime minister rushes through a policy she once derided

In 2009, an Italian cruise ship with 1, 500 people aboard fended off a pirate attack in the Indian Ocean far off the coast of Somalia.

WSJ: Towing Begins for Costa Cruise Ship Adrift After Fire