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LibriVox reading in French. Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) is a Symbolist poem written in the summer of 1871 by French poet Arthur Rimbaud, then aged sixteen.The poem, one-hundred lines long, with four alexandrines per each of its twenty-five quatrains, describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. [1]
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
Reverso has been active since 1998, with the aim of providing online translation and linguistic tools to corporate and mass markets. [3] [4]In 2013 it released Reverso Context, a bilingual dictionary tool based on big data and machine learning algorithms.
Sinking [ edit ] At about 11:58 pm on 12 January 1920, Afrique was passing between Pierre Levée and the Plateau de Rochebonne [ fr ] , 23 miles (42 km) from Olonne-sur-Mer , when she lost engine power in a gale.
Sinking (simplified Chinese: 沉沦; traditional Chinese: 沉淪; pinyin: Chénlún) is a novella written by Yu Dafu. The story was completed in Tokyo in 1921 and later published in a collection named Sinking in Shanghai the same year. [1] It is among the first generation of modern Chinese fictions telling psychological stories.
Sinking may refer to: Sinking of a ship; see shipwrecking; Being submerged; Sinking, a 1996 studio album by The Aloof; Sinking (behavior), the act of pouring out champagne in the sink; Sinking (metalworking), a metalworking technique; Sinking, a 1921 novella by Yu Dafu "Sinking", a song by No Doubt from the album No Doubt (No Doubt album)
Memorial to the sinking in Keelung. Taiping was a Chinese steamer that sank after a collision with a smaller cargo ship, Chienyuan, while en route from mainland China to Taiwan on 27 January 1949. With an estimated death toll of over 1,500 people, it ranks as one of the ten deadliest maritime disasters in history.
The weather was good and there were no previous problems. Suddenly, a powerful explosion shook the ship, shattering the windows in the wheelhouse. Within 40 seconds, it was clear that the Lucona was sinking and Puister ordered the crew to abandon ship. Some crew members who were below deck at the time were unable to do so, and the ship sank ...