The Titanic took 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink beneath the waves.

泰坦尼克号完全沉入水下花了2个小时40分钟；

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Both ships were huge: the Titanic was carrying 2, 207 passengers and crew on the night it went down; the Lusitania had 1, 949.

因为，两艘都是巨型船：在沉没那天晚上，泰坦尼克载有2207名乘客和船员；卢西·塔尼亚载有1949人。

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Her best-selling album in recent years is the Grammy-winning "Ray of Light," which opened at No. 2 with 371,000 copies in 1998, just behind the unsinkable "Titanic" soundtrack.

麦当娜近几年最畅销的专辑要数获得格莱美大奖的《光芒万丈》，这张专辑发行于1998年，上市第一周销量达到37.1万张，仅次于永不沉落的《泰坦尼克号》主题曲大碟，排行第二。

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However, Mary South, whose grandfather, a first-class steward, died in the disaster, admitted she was "warming" to Titanic 2.

BBC: Titanic 2: Mixed reaction at Southampton launch event

There's a script for "Titanic 2" lying around somewhere.

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There may still be scepticism and questions over taste, but if the distinctive four funnels of Titanic 2 steam out of Southampton Water in 2016 as planned, the world will certainly be watching.

BBC: Titanic 2: Mixed reaction at Southampton launch event