If they hadn't saved us, we would have been drowned in the stormy river.

要不是他们救了我们，我们就要在暴风雨的河里淹死了。

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It took him about two hours to swim over the river and for twice he was nearly drowned.

他花了约两个小时游过河，其间有两次几乎淹死。

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Here is a broad river, flow is too fast, in order to cross the river and drowned things often happen.

这里的河面宽阔，水流又急，为了过河而溺水的事常有发生。

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In nineteen thirteen, Isadora's two children, Deirdre and Patrick, along with their nurse, were drowned in the Seine River in Paris.

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There are also reports that many people may have drowned in a river as they fled the attacks.

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Three Albanian boys then drowned in the River Ibar, which divides the northern town of Mitrovica into an Albanian south and a Serbian north.

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Among the cases documented is one involving a dementia patient who went missing from a hospital and was found drowned in a nearby river.

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