During the night, somebody had cut the boat loose from its moorings.

有人在夜间砍断了泊船的缆绳。

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"In the storm of last night," answered the Dolphin, "the little boat must have been swamped."

“在昨晚的暴风雨中，”海豚回答说，“那小船一定是被淹了。”

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Twice, her boat was turned over in the night by large waves.

她的船在夜里两次被巨浪掀翻。

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In the first of the two tragic events, survivors report the boat capsized early Saturday night when the smugglers began to push passengers over board into the waters off the coast of Yemen.

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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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He was captured the following night hiding in a boat being stored in a yard.

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