The commander of the naval force, Captain [Gustavus] Fox, had hoped to move the soldiers to Sumter in small boats. But the sea was so rough that the small boats could not be used.

美国海军的司令官古斯塔夫·福克斯上校原希望利用小船将士兵运送到萨姆特堡，但这里的海面非常凶涌，这样的小船根本无法使用。

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Players today are encouraged by the League to be friendly with each other, and you could even argue that the crackdowns on hard fouls and rough play have contributed to a more buddy-buddy NBA culture.

今天联盟是鼓励球员之间能够有良好的友谊，甚至你可以说这样的友谊对于扫除强硬的犯规和粗糙的发挥做出了巨大的贡献的。

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Others predicted that Joyon would be unable to handle IDEC's enormous sails or that the boat could lose her mast in the rough conditions that any round-the-world sailor inevitably would face.

还有人预测茹瓦永无法控制爱德克艇上巨大的帆，艇上的桅杆也会在恶劣的环境中倒下，这是任何环球航行的水手都不可会遇到的。

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But the sea was so rough that the small boats could not be used.

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He said journalists agreed among themselves to consider the remarks off the record because they didn't want to get a summit staffer heard into a "rough patch" after he disclosed that the audio could be heard.

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One consequence of Indian Railways' present bias, according to a rough calculation by the World Bank, is that freight tariffs could be reduced by more than 40% if its social burdens were paid directly by the user or the government.

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