击沉

After the sinking, one of the crews drew a destroyer on the tank commander's cupola.

击沉驱逐舰后，一名坦克乘员在炮塔上的指挥塔上画上了一艘驱逐舰。

After a running battle the enemy was sunk by a direct hit at 1,000 yards.

在一场海上追击战后，敌舰在1，000码处被直接击沉。

With fixed undercarriage and an apparently inadequate payload of one 250 pound bomb, the Val was basically obsolete even at the end of 1941, however they performed surprisingly effectively at Pearl Harbor and later against the British carriers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire, and the carrier HMS Hermes.

由于有着固定的起落架和只能携带看起来明显威力不足的250公斤的炸彈，瓦尔轰炸机甚至在1941年末就已经落伍了。但不管如何，瓦尔在珍珠港以及在它击沉英国皇家海军的重巡洋舰康沃尔号和多塞特郡号和航空母舰竞技神号的战斗表现中有着很惊人的效率。

In the previous five months, the Allies had lost a dozen battleships and carriers, and had been unable to sink a single major Japanese unit in return.'' Shoho '' was small by carrier standards, but the laconic "scratch one flattop", radioed back to the ''Lexington'', brought news of the first Allied naval success of the Pacific war.

在过去的五个月，盟军损失了一打的军舰，但都无法击沉一个主要的日军目标，祥凤是小型航母，但是简洁的无线电讯息『抓到一支航母』传回勒克辛顿号代表的是盟军舰队在太平洋战争中的首次胜利。

First, we flooded and sank our own ships...

首先我们要击沉自己的船只。。。

Towards evening the mate and boat-swain begged the master of our ship to let them cut away the foremast, which he was very unwilling to: But the boat-swain protesting to him, that if he did not, the ship would founder, he consented; and when they had cut away the foremast, the main-mast stood so loose, and shook the ship so much, they were obliged to cut her away also, and make a clear deck.

临近傍晚，大副和水手长请求我们的船长让他们砍掉船头第一根桅杆；船长当然是很不愿意干的。但水手长坚持说，如果船长不这样做，船就会被风浪击沉；船长同意了。当他们把这根桅杆砍掉，主桅杆就站立不稳，船也随着剧烈摇晃，他们又只得把主桅杆也砍掉。这样就只剩下一个空荡荡的甲板了。

Then the frigate the United States defeated one of Britain's most famous fighting ships, the Macedonian.

随后，美国的护卫舰击沉了英国一艘最著名的战舰"马其顿"号。

Galleasses carry more sails than true galleys, and are far deadlier. A broadside from a Galleass can devastate most ships.

战舰配备更多水兵，因而更为致命，其舷炮一次齐射可击沉当时大多数战舰。

The Japanese yesterday took complete control at Shanghai, sank with all hands one of our small river gunboats, the Petrel, and seized an American gunboat.

日本人昨天完全控制了上海，击沉了我们的一艘小型炮艇及其全部人员，并俘获了一艘美国炮艇。

However, postwar study proved that Gurnard succeeded in sinking only 10 ships -- tons.

然而战后的研究证明"鲂鱼"号一共只成功地击沉了10艘舰船--57，866吨。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。