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Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, （who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water）, have been frightened out of their wits by giant fish bumping into them as they work.
钻井平台需要经常修理，潜水员常常要在水面100英尺以下摸黑工作，他们曾在工作时被撞到他们身上的大鱼吓得惊惶失措。
The fish are not sharks or killer whales, but favorite eating varieties like cod and skate (which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length.)
这些鱼并不是鲨鱼或逆戟鲸，而是深受人们喜爱的食用鱼品种，如鳕鱼和鳐鱼，只不过它们长得出奇地大，有时长达12英尺。
the warm water round the hot oil pipes under the sea; the plentiful supply of food thrown overboard by the crews on the rigs;
海底热的输油管道附近的温暖的海水；钻井平台工作人员抛到海里充足的食物；
※ overboard adv.（自船上） 到水中
fall overboard
从船上落水、 从火车上掉下來
the total absence of fishing boats around the oil rigs.
钻井平台周围根本没有捕鱼船只。
