WHEN John Cabot dropped anchor off the coast of Newfoundland in 1497, his crew reported that they needed only to dip a bucket into the water to catch cod.

1497年，当约翰·卡博特的船在纽芬兰岛海岸靠岸时，据他的船员称，他们只需把一个水桶沉入海里就能捞到鳕鱼了。

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Of all the ways to ring in the new year, stripping down for a dip in the ocean off the coast of wintery New York City may sound insane to the uninitiated.

BBC: An icy dip off the coast of NYC

Since Somalia, Iraq and the Palestinian territories have all known worse years than 2009, it may be that Italy's deal with Libya happened to come into force just as the volume of migrants reaching the North African coast was beginning to dip anyway.

ECONOMIST: Sometimes what does not happen is the real news