life raft

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If you look down towards the Atlantic Ocean, you will see a little yellow life raft with three people in it to waving at you.
如果你俯視下面的大西洋，那麼你會看到一艘黃色的救生筏，上面有三個人正在朝你揮手。
“Instead of the house dragging us down, it’s become a life raft, ” said Mr. Pemberton, who stopped paying the mortgage on their house here last summer.
彭伯頓先生從去年夏天開始就不再償付住房按揭貸款了，他說：“房子不再是我們的負(fù)累,反而成了救生筏。
Martel's acclaimed novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only a female orangutan, injured zebra, hungry hyena and brooding Bengal tiger for company.
馬特爾備受推崇的小說記述了一名男孩在船只遇難后，與一只雌猩猩、受傷的斑馬、饑餓的鬣狗和一只陰沉的孟加拉虎困在一條救生筏上的苦難歷程。

The team was subsequently spotted in a life raft approximately 8 miles offshore.
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The men were picked up from a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 380 nautical miles north of Puerto Rico.
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a type of boat that is carried on a large ship and is used in emergencies, for example when the ship is sinking, to take people to safety

A life raft is a small rubber boat carried on an aircraft or large boat which can be filled with air and used in an emergency.