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The pumps...If we opened the doors. 　　
抽水只能拖延几分钟。　　
The pumps buy you time, but minutes only.
用帮浦抽水。　　
From this moment, no matter what we do.
现在不管做什么。　　
Titanic will founder.
泰坦尼克号都会沉没。　　
But this ship can't sink.
但这艘船不会沉。　　
She's made of iron, sir. I assure you, she can...
她只要是铁做的，就保证能沉。　　
and she will.
而且一定会沉。　　
It is a mathematical certainty.
绝对错不了。　　
How much time?
有多少时间？
An hour. Two at most.
一小时，最多两小时。
And how many aboard, Mr. Murdoch?
船上有多少人，默多克先生？　　
2,200 souls on board, sir.
有两千两百人。　　
Well, I believe you may get your headlines, Mr. Ismay.
这下可以上头条了，伊士美先生。　　
Oh, it is a little slut, isn't it? Will you look at me when I'm talking to you.
你真是个贱货，看着我，我在跟你讲话。　　
Mr. Hockley? Not now, we're busy.
贺克利先生？别吵，我们在忙。　　
Sir, I've been told to ask you to please put on your lifebelts and come up to...
请穿上救生衣，到救生艇甲板。　　
I said not now.
我说等一下。　　
I'm sorry to inconvenience you, Mr. Hockley, but it's Captain's orders.
对不起，这是船长的命令。　　
Now, please, dress warmly. It's quite cold out tonight.
请多穿点衣服吗，外头很冷。

妙语佳句
1.founder
vi. 失败；沉没；倒塌；变跛
vt. 破坏；使摔倒；垮掉
n. 创始人；建立者；翻沙工
So as a founder, I can know a team of around ten people really well. Sometimes fifteen is OK.
作为一个建立者，我知道一个大约十人的团队,是非常好的，有时候十五个也行。
2.sink
vi. 下沉；消沉；渗透
vt. 使下沉；挖掘；使低落
n. 水槽；洗涤槽；污水坑
The sink was stopped up with hair and fragments of cloth.
洗涤槽被头发和破布片给堵住了。
3.mathematical
adj. 数学的，数学上的；精确的
If everyone in the world performed one mathematical calculation per second, it would take 650 years to do what this machine can do in one day.
如果世界上每个人每秒都做一次数学计算的话，要用650年才能完成这台计算机一天的运算量。
4.lifebelt
n. 救生带；救生圈
A piece of lifebelt had lain in the bottom of the boat, and as the correspondent went overboard he held this to his chest with his left hand.
一条救生带躺在舱底。在记者跳进海里时，他左手把救生带抓在胸前。
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翻译
1.这下可以上头条了。　　　
2.她只要是铁做的，就保证能沉。　　　
上期答案
1.Perhaps he did it while you were putting your clothes back on, dear.
2.The waterwill spill overthe tops of bulkheads at E deck from one to the next.