●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...
·l immediately embarked on an experiment which,even thoughit failed to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated for twenty-four hours. 我立即开始了一项实验,尽管它没能摆脱蚂蚁,但却让我着迷了24小时(事实) The tragicsinkingof this great liner will always be remembered, for shewent downon herf...
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 ...
No man-made disaster lives in our collective memory quite like the sinking of the "Titanic." Explore the timeline, key people, and deadly details of this historical tragedy.
It drew no conclusions as to the cause of the sinking. Canadian explorer Joseph MacInnis led six publicly funded dives over three days in 1994 to take pictures. Also that year sport diver Fred Shannon and his Deepquest Ltd did a serious of dives and took more than 42 hours of underwater...
RMS Carpathia arrives on the scene about 90 minutes after the sinking and has rescued the last of the survivors by 9:15 AM on April 15, some nine and a half hours after the collision with the iceberg. The death toll has been put at 1,513, including many Irish, although the number ...
The sinking of the Titanic might have been a huge tragedy and even an unavoidable disaster, but it was far from the largest maritime accident. That dubious honor goes to the sinking of the German ship,the Wilhelm Gustloff. The ship was built in 1937 and first launched as a cruise ship, ...
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.