We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship till we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea.

离开大船不到一刻钟，我们就看到它沉下去了。这时，我才平生第一次懂得大海沉船是怎么回事。

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The average over the oceans is sparse and only a quarter of the possible ship reports may be received within 12 hours ;

海洋上测站数平均很少， 在12 小时之内， 我们只能接收到四分之一的船舶站的天气预报；

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Now that the problem is understood it is clear that fewer PCs will ship in the first quarter because of a shortage of hard disk drives, driving an oversupply of semiconductors which will put prices into a tailspin.

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This means that vendors typically ship big during the quarter, which raises the risk of a sudden inventory spike if consumer demand weakens.

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Last quarter saw RIM ship only 7.4 million BlackBerries, a precipitous drop of 30% year-over-year and about 5% sequentially.

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