We dropped anchor a few yards offshore.

我们在离岸几码远的地方抛锚。

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Low water levels on Lake Malawi have forced the steamers to anchor offshore at most ports along the lake.

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Brian figured that if he could solve the technology and logistics problems required to anchor a fish farm 10 or 20 miles offshore, where swift currents carry away and disperse the waste produced by concentrated fish stocks, it would allow the farmed fish to swim in the same fresh water as their wild cousins-the best of both worlds.

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