A lazy searchlight beam swept a circle about fifty yards out from the ship.

一束懒洋洋的探照灯扫过船外大约五十码的圆圈。

“When the searchlight beam fell on a pipe, we were joyous, ” one of the men later said in an interview with the Soviet media.

“当探照灯射到一根管子上时， 我们很高兴，” 其中一名男子后来在接受苏联媒体采访时说。

The searchlight beam swept far outside us now. Light bounced off the water and seemed to make my face as obvious as a flare, but nothing happened. Then there was a dull creak of heavy hinges over my head.

探照灯的光束现在扫到了我们外面很远的地方。光从水面上反射回来，似乎让我的脸像照明弹一样明显，但什么也没发生。然后我头顶上沉重的铰链发出沉闷的吱吱声。