Against a starry sky a flame shaped like a candle flare was rising from a blacktanker shape half-enveloped in a red ball of darker fire .
衬着布满星星的夜空，一片烈火如同高烧的巨烛，正从半掩没在色泽更深的一团火球中的黑色油船上熊熊燃起。
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Off Japan's northeastern coast, an oil tanker lay eerily stranded in shallow water. Inland, in Sendai, a black mini-van perched perilously on a metal post.
日本东北部海岸不远处，一艘油轮怪异地搁浅在浅水区。在内陆的仙台，则有辆小面包车停在危险地金属桩上。
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The resulting black, stinking, slurry was eventually dumped around landfills in Abidjan, after Trafigura paid an unqualified local man to take it away in tanker trucks at a cheap rate.