The story went that this whirlpool could suck any ship down and grind it to splinters.

传说这个大漩涡可以吸入一切船只，把它们碾成碎片。

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One day, he and his friends to the sea. Longer distance, the ship down, there are many people died, and only Robinson survived.

有一天，他和他的朋友出海。再路程中，船倒了，有很多人死了，只有鲁滨逊活了下来。

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The ship went down although strenuous efforts were made to save it.

尽管人们为营救这条船做了很大的努力，它还是沉了。

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Ships often sank. No one could survive the freezing waters in this dangerous area if the ship went down.

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Wave hit the ship,and Mignonette went down.

大浪导致翻船，“木犀草号“沉没。

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Some,like this Turkish man, spoke of the violence they witnessed when Israeli commandos came down on the main ship,a Turkish vessel, during the raid in the eastern Mediterranean.

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Where else can you walk past a foreshortened version of the Eiffel Tower, straddling what looks like the Paris Opera, and think to yourself, compared to the pirate ship down the street that looks almost classy?

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So I asked the obvious question: unless you ship them down frozen, how?

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He knows who to ship to down there.

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