The great ship was like a floating building.

那艘巨轮活像一幢浮动的大楼。

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A great ship asks deep water.

大船走深水。

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A small leak will sink a great ship.

小漏洞能使大船沉没。

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The ship's Captain Ahab is seeking to find the great,white whale that destroyed his former ship and bit off his leg.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

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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Crew member Kenneth Leahey says working in the midst of the disaster meant the ship had a great impact.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

If we do not turn this great ship around, I fear more and more people will become recipients of various government programs.

FORBES: Dear Mr. President: STOP THE MADNESS!!

But if that great ship called the eurozone does hit the iceberg, and there is a calamitous collapse in markets and economy, nothing else would feel terribly important at that fateful moment.

BBC: Has the eurozone flunked the market's test again?

The new nation was a seafaring one, amassing great wealth from ship-building, whaling, fishing and maritime trade.

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