The pumps were started and the crew began to douse the fire with water.

抽水机启动了，船员们开始用水将火浇灭。

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Does it help to douse your head with water?

用冷水淋头真的有用吗？

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He noted the forces' attempt to douse the reactors with sea water by helicopter and decontamination and civilian evacuation activities around the damaged plant.

他提到了自卫队的努力，他们通过直升机用海水倒灌、净化核反应堆以及疏散被毁核反应堆附近的居民。

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If you are going self-service, follow this up with a loofah-and-soap rub-down and douse yourself with water from the marble basins.

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This was ostensibly manned by the pro-Congolese government militia known as the Mai Mai after the water they douse themselves with to create a magical, bullet-proof shield.

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He is just as likely to douse his misery with meatballs as with scotch.

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