A dead whale has been found pinned to the bow of a cruise ship off the coast of Alaska, the third such incident in a decade.

人们发现，一条死去的鲸鱼被卡在一艘阿拉斯加海岸外的游船的船头，而这已经是十年里的发生的第三起类似事故了。

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Last year, the same ship was discovered to have a dead fin whale - which, like humpbacks, are classified as endangered - pinned to its bow when it returned to Vancouver.

就在去年，这艘船在返回温哥华途中，人们发现一条死亡的长须鲸——与座头鲸一样被列为濒危物种的鲸——就卡在船头。

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A bit dead, but sweet, like the decaying wood of a ship.

有一点窒息，但却甜蜜，像小船上的腐木。

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After the whale was dead, the sailors would then slowly and with great effort take it all the way back to the ship.

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When bad weather prevented navigators from seeing the sun,moon or stars, they had to use a method called "dead reckoning" to find the ship's position.

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If a ship was sailing in the middle of the ocean, a navigator could make mistakes using dead reckoning and no harm would be done.

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They looked as dead in the water as a cruise ship.

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The BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome says that whatever the cause of the crash, it has revived memories of the accident involving the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012, which left 32 people dead.

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