斯洛克

Eight years earlier, the General Slocum, a steamboat on a charter run to a church picnic, exploded and sank in the East River.

八年前，斯洛克姆将军（GeneralSlocum）在一个教会野餐包机轮船上，遭遇爆炸，在东河（EastRiver）沉没，遇难人数超过1000。

´I´m just sorry to see my retirement going to hell, ´ said Robert Slocomb, an 82-year old retired Kodak optical engineer in Rochester, N. Y.

纽约州罗彻斯特市82岁的柯达（Kodak）退休光学工程师斯洛克姆（RobertSlocomb）说，我只是觉得很难过，眼看着自己的退休时光就要滑向地狱深渊。

It is a Slocum that has been modified to harvest the energy that it needs to operate its buoyancy-propulsion system from the sea itself.

这个斯洛克姆被改装从海中获取能源来运转它的浮力推动系统。

A steamship fire that swept through the General Slocum in New York harbor killed some 1 030 people.

纽约港内的一艘汽船失火，大火席卷“斯洛克姆将军号”游艇，约1030人遇难。

Some are called “Slocums” , after Joshua Slocum, who in 1898 was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world.

一些被称为“斯洛克姆”，取自约书亚•斯洛克姆，于1898年第一个独自航行环游世界的人。