In fact, the pursuing vessel had almost overtaken them when, fortunately, night came on, and enabled them to double the Cape of Corsica, and so elude all further pursuit.

事实上，那艘追逐的船差一点追上了他们，幸亏他们当时借助夜色绕过科西嘉海峡，摆脱了追踪。

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The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he resisted the galley guards who seized him.

警炮响了，到了晚上，巡夜的人在一只正在建造的船骨里找到了他，他拒捕，但是被捕了。

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The daughters of danaus who at their father's command murdered their bridegrooms on their wedding night and were condemned in hades to pour water eternally into a leaky vessel.

达那伊得斯姐妹：达那俄斯的女儿们，听从于父亲的命令在新婚之夜杀死了她们的新郎，而被罚在地狱里永不停息地用渗漏的工具取水。

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Six years later DeGeorge and a business associate, Paul Ebeling, were aboard a 57-foot racing vessel off the coast of Genoa, Italy one dark night when the boat hit a submerged object and sank.

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