The time of the beautiful, old sailing ships is coming to an end.

美丽的旧帆船的时代即将结束。

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By 1967, dual-purpose ships, carrying loose cargo in the hold and containers on the deck, were giving way to all-container vessels that moved thousands of boxes at a time.

到1967年，在货舱中装载散装货物和甲板上装载集装箱的两用货船开始让位于能够一次性运送数千箱货物的集装箱货船。

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At this time, British ships were exploring the world and came across the drink in China.

当时，英国的船只正在探索世界，在中国偶然发现了这种饮料。

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And,the ships cannot bring on land more than one hundred passengers at a time.

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At this time the Dutch are sending herrings, these long flat boats, herring ships are going all the way to Newfoundland in the seventeenth century,and Iceland, freezing off the coast of Iceland.

于此同时,荷兰人也还运输鲱鱼,这些运送鲱鱼的长板船,在十七世纪一路开往纽芬兰和冰岛等地区,并不停穿梭于被冰壳覆盖的海岸线上

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The First Barbary War stopped piracy against American ships for a time.

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Together, they worked out a new route that would reduce the co-occurrence of whales and ships by 81% and increased the transit time of ships by between nine and 22 minutes.

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Such brightening has been observed in the exhaust plumes of cargo ships for some time, but Lynn Russell, who ran the experiment, was still surprised by how much brightening the team saw.

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Incoming dirty ships would have to transfer their cargo or be cleaned, which takes time, and cleaning the ships could create delays and port congestion.

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