英伦广角 2011-09-12 北海落水者终获救

 It was a situation every ferry captain dreads¹. In the cold blackness of the North Sea, a passenger has fallen overboard, remarkably², the crew of the Princess Seaways managed to turn the vessel³ around and use their life boat to pull a 23-year-old from the waves, still alive.

 

As soon as the captain was informed about the incident, he turned the ship round in the right way, so at the end it happened opposite direction of the sailing route and we were able to find the woman very quickly and I believe that from the moment she fell overboard and until she was onboard again, it lasted 34 minutes.

 

These pictures were taken from a RAF Sea King helicopter sent to airlift woman to hospital.The rescue happened around 20 miles off the Yorkshire coast, as the ferry crossed from New Castle to the Netherlands. 

 

How the woman fell in isn’t known. But she stayed afloat, using a life buoy⁴ thrown by a fellow passenger.

 

The woman, from Hertfordshire, has now been discharged⁵ from hospital, following a journey that was rather less than plain sailing.

 

Mark Smith, Sky News.

1 dreads   

n.恐惧，畏惧( dread的名词复数 )；令人恐惧的事物v.害怕，恐惧，担心( dread的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The little boy dreads going to bed in the dark. 这孩子不敢在黑暗中睡觉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• A burnt child dreads the fire. [谚]烧伤过的孩子怕火（惊弓之鸟，格外胆小）。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2 remarkably   

ad.不同寻常地，相当地

参考例句：

• I thought she was remarkably restrained in the circumstances. 我认为她在那种情况下非常克制。
• He made a remarkably swift recovery. 他康复得相当快。

3 vessel   

n.船舶；容器，器皿；管，导管，血管

参考例句：

• The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
• You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。

4 buoy   

n.浮标；救生圈；v.支持，鼓励

参考例句：

• The party did little to buoy up her spirits.这次聚会并没有让她振作多少。
• The buoy floated back and forth in the shallow water.这个浮标在浅水里漂来漂去。

5 discharged   

adj.放电的，泻出的v.下（客）( discharge的过去式和过去分词 )；卸船；免除（自己的义务、负担等）；执行

参考例句：

• Patients were being discharged from the hospital too early. 病人都过早获准出院。
• He was readmitted only a week after being discharged. 他出院仅一个星期就又住院了。