●even though(尽管、虽然):接存在的事实 The tragic sinking of this great liner will always be remembered, for she went down on her first voyage with heavy loss of life. 然而,这艘巨轮首航就下沉,造成大批人员死亡。人们将永远记着这艘巨轮的沉没...
In the immediate aftermath of the sinking, hundreds of passengers and crew were left dying in the icy sea, surrounded by debris from the ship. Titanic’s disintegration during her descent to the seabed caused buoyant chunks of debris – timber beams, wooden doors, furniture, paneling and chunks...
In the tragic Titanic sinking in 1912, as the rescue ship Carpathia docked in New York, it was finally revealed that 1,500 people had lost their lives, while about 700 people had been saved. It seems incredible that, more than a century after she sank, the Titanic still has the power ...
For instance, during the post sinking scene with all the passengers in the water, cries for help were heard from all directions and you could clearly hear what they were crying. The film itself holds up extremely well. I thought perhaps it would feel somewhat dated in the 15 years since ...
The sinking of the Titanic was indeed one of the greatest losses of life in maritime history. There had previously been two disasters which may have matched this loss - the SS Sultana in Tennessee in 1865 (boiler explosion), and the Tek Sing sunk in the South China Seas in 1822 (reef ...
An overview of the efforts made by radio operators Jack Philips and Harold Bride is also presented which prevented the increase of death toll during its sinking through their use of two-way radio systems from Marconi Co. that informed them of ice warnings from other ships.Hoffman...
Below, the captain realized to his horror that the Titanic was sinking rapidly, for five of her sixteen watertight compartments had already been flooded! The order to abandon ship was given and hundreds of people plunged into the icy water. As there were not enough lifeboats for everybody, 1...
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear threat and the sinking of the Titanic are both disasters caused by acts of nature – earthquake and tsunami in one case, an iceberg in the other – interacting with technology. Yet they have radically different implications.
*It never ceases to amaze me when I see a news blurb saying “new information about Titanic sinking!” and it turns out to be a shill for the Titanic/Olympic switch theory. The theory is bogus and demonstrably false. All one has to do is look at the wreck to see it is not Olympic...