Soon, the waves broke up the ice around the ship into thousands of smaller pieces.

很快，海浪把船周围的冰层击碎成数千小块。

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Normally, thousands of visitors crowd the Banks of Haining or Xiaoshan to watch the waves, which can swell up to 9 meters high.

通常会有上千名观潮者挤上海宁或萧山的堤岸来观潮，潮可以涨到9米高。

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The earthquake triggered several giant waves that swept away thousands of houses.

地震引发了几次巨大海浪夷平了上千座房屋。

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Thousands of surfers check out the waves with services like Surf Check and Surf Line, which monitor hundreds of beaches worldwide.

CNN: To surf the Web or surf the surf?

Storm waves and high winds have washed away thousands of tonnes of beach sand in front of the launching area for a Norfolk lifeboat.

BBC: Lifeboat launch area washed away by tides and storms

Visions of the devastating quake and tsunami that killed thousands in Japan in March 2011 fueled the fright, but the waves proved to be smaller and less powerful than feared.

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