The text says they "cowered like dogs crouched against the outer wall.

书上写道“像狗一样,蜷缩在墙角。

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where you sit in a room and you're huddled over you know, whatever, you're just counting it over and over and over again.

你蜷缩在屋子一角，手旁一堆工作，然后你就在那儿一遍又一遍地计算。

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By now the cabin boy, Parker, is lying at the bottom of the lifeboat in the corner because he had drunk seawater against the advice of the others and he had become ill and he appeared to be dying.

现在派克正蜷缩在救生艇的角落,因为他不顾众人劝阻饮用了海水,他生病了，而且似乎快死了。

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