As long as George remains in Maine, he won't have to worry about ending his life in a pot of boiling water. Fishermen are barred from keeping lobsters that exceed the state's legal size limit.

只要还在缅因州，乔治就无须担心成为别人的盘中餐——缅因州禁止捕获超过法定大小的龙虾！

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Straight on, a tilted stairway of pale marble rose up out of the dark water in a graceful spiral, ending abruptly ten feet above their heads.

再往前直走，一座优雅的盘旋而上的苍白大理石石阶从昏暗的水中升起在他们头顶约十英尺的地方戛然而止。

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Two enormous figures have lifted it out of the water, and - in an imagined happier ending - the passengers are emerging from the boat, smiling and waving.

两个巨人把它从水里拉出来，在想象中更愉快的结局里，乘客们从船里出来，微笑着挥手。

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In suburban Chicago, which got up to 7 inches of rain in a 24-hour period ending Thursday, record levels of water were moving through the Des Plaines River past heavily populated western suburbs and into the Illinois River to the south.

NPR: Floodwaters Rising After Storms Deluge Heartland