They painted a grim picture. "the pressure is just to keep your head above water, so you don't feel like you're drowning all the time," said Juliana Sanchez, from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

他们勾勒出一幅严峻的画面，“压力在于你仅能做到把头露出水面，这样才不会觉得你随时会溺毙，”来自新墨西哥州阿尔·伯克基(albuquerque)的Juliana Sanchez这么说道，“你觉得就像喘不过气来。”

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To reduce the risk of toilet drowning, keep the stool out of reach, keep the toilet door closed and the toilet cover down.

为了减少厕所溺水的危险，应将马桶保持在婴儿能触及的范围之外，关闭厕所门并盖好马桶。

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Fear of drowning will keep a swimmer from swimming in the ocean if there is no lifeguard around.

要是周围没有救生人员，游泳者就不敢到海里游泳，怕淹死。

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There is a small hole in the side to drain out extra moisture and keep from drowning the plants.

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Her sister Lucy told the court that the defendant had visited their hotel shortly after the drowning "to warn them to keep quiet about it".

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