off the coast

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I suggested he put an aircraft carrier or other large vessel off the coast of Florida and do the same kind of screening.
我建议他在佛罗里达的海岸上安置一艘航空母舰或是一艘其它种类的大舰艇，进行同样的筛选。
But it was on the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador that Darwin found creatures that made him wonder about how species develop and change.
但，正是在厄瓜多尔海岸之外的加拉帕哥斯群岛，达尔文发现了一些生物，这使他想到了物种是如何发展和变化的。
NATO warships have launched an anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia by escorting one ship to port with plans for a similar operation on Tuesday.
北约军舰在索马里沿海开展一项反海盗的行动，他们护送了一艘船进港，另一个类似的行动也会在星期二进行。

The Florida,for example, captured more than thirty ships before being captured itself off the coast of Brazil in eighteen sixty-four.
At this time the Dutch are sending herrings, these long flat boats, herring ships are going all the way to Newfoundland in the seventeenth century,and Iceland, freezing off the coast of Iceland.
于此同时,荷兰人也还运输鲱鱼,这些运送鲱鱼的长板船,在十七世纪一路开往纽芬兰和冰岛等地区,并不停穿梭于被冰壳覆盖的海岸线上
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He started a textile business in that island nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa.

The situation off the coast of Somalia is foremost in our minds at the moment.
UN: Secretary-General