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Six road workers who were missing after a bridge collapsed in Baltimore Harbor are now presumed dead.
在巴尔的摩港一座桥梁倒塌后，失踪的六名修路工人目前被评估已经死亡。
Authorities announced the news on Tuesday as they pulled dive teams out of search-and-rescue operations since conditions in the dark waters had become more risky.
有关部门于本周二宣布了这一消息，同时他们将潜水队撤出了搜救行动，因为黑暗水域的情况变得更加危险。
State Police Colonel Roland Butler:
州警察罗兰·巴特勒上校表示：
"The last thing we want to do is put divers in the water with changing currents, low temperatures, very poor visibility and so much metal and unknown objects in the water."
“我们最不愿意做的就是将潜水员置入水流变化多端、温度很低、能见度很低、水域内有这么多金属和未知物体的水里。”
Eight workers were filling potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge around 1:30 a.m. local time, when a massive cargo ship crippled by a power loss rammed into the structure.
当地时间凌晨1点30分左右，8名工人正在弗朗西斯·斯科特·基大桥上填坑，一艘因停电而瘫痪的大型货船撞上了该大桥。
The workers and vehicles on the bridge plunged into the water as a trestled section of the 1.6-mile bridge crumpled into the Patapsco River.
随着这座1.6英里长的大桥的一段高架坍塌入帕塔普斯科河，桥上的工人和一些车辆也掉入了水中。
Two were pulled to safety, with one of them hospitalized.
最终，两名工人被拉至安全地带，其中一人住院接受治疗。
But some 18 hours after the accident, officials said there was no hope of finding the missing six alive in the icy water.
但在事故发生大约18个小时后，官员们表示，已经没有希望在冰冷的海水中找到失踪的6人了。
Butler said authorities hoped to return divers to the water after sunrise on Wednesday to recover the workers' remains.
巴特勒警官表示，当局希望在周三日出后让潜水员回到水中继续去寻找工人的遗体。
He also did not rule out the chance that there may have been other vehicles on the bridge that fell in the water.
他也不排除桥上可能有其他车辆掉入水中的可能性。
Officials credited the crew of the Singapore-flagged container ship, named Dali, for averting a potentially much worse disaster.
官员对这艘悬挂着新加坡国旗的集装箱船只“达利”号上的船员避免了一场可能严重得多的灾难进行了表扬。
