The law of the sea is women and children first.

海上的法律规定：妇女与儿童优先。

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Hundreds of women and children had gathered in the narrow lanes, and witnesses said the women tumbled over one another trying to enter a building in an attempt to collect the food first.

数百名妇女和儿童聚集在狭窄的巷道中，而且有目击者称一位妇女摔倒在地，而其他人试图进入大楼希望率先领取到食物。

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Influenced perhaps by fear or anger, the marines may have "shot first and asked questions later, and women and children died as a result," he says.

也许是受恐惧或愤怒的影响，海军陆战队可能“先开了枪，之后才做出询问，结果令一些妇女和儿童丢了性命”。

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The one hundred seventeen men,women and children were not the first white people to try to live on the island.

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Perched on the outskirts is the Birkenhead Brewery, its name taken from a nearby 19th-century shipwreck, HMS Birkenhead, which launched the nautical tradition of evacuating women and children first.

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