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听力原文及翻译

The Dali, which was beginning its 22-day journey to Sri Lanka after spending a couple of days in the port of Baltimore, one of the nation's busiest ports, was Singapore-flagged. It had been hired by the shipping container company myosc, one of the largest container traffickers on the world stage. 

达利号悬挂新加坡国旗，在巴尔的摩港停留数日后，开始了为期 22 天的斯里兰卡之旅。巴尔的摩港是美国最繁忙的港口之一。该船由集装箱运输公司 myosc 租用，该公司是世界上最大的集装箱运输商之一。

Today, they've issued a statement saying how horrified they are by this event. Absolutely no indication that it was intentional or in any way uh terror-related. This appears to have been some kind of catastrophic navigation error that the authorities are only now beginning to investigate. And a National Transportation Safety Board team will be dispatched from Washington D.C., just up the road to Baltimore, to begin and oversee the process of this investigation.

今天，他们发表声明，表示对这一事件深感震惊。绝对没有迹象表明这是故意的，或者与恐怖主义有关。这似乎是某种灾难性的航行错误，当局现在才开始调查。美国国家运输安全委员会的一个小组将从华盛顿特区派往巴尔的摩，开始并监督调查过程。

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