pump water (out)
“我已经潜过了，”我爬出海水后宣布，“轮到你们抽水了。”
“I’ve already dived,” I announced as I climbed out of the sea. “Now it’s your turn to pump out the water.”
他们开始抽水。
They started pumping out the water.
抽水似乎主要靠风车。
Water seems to be pumped mainly by windmills.
我回去继续抽水。
I’ll go back and keep pumping out the water.
威廉姆森手头的船员比水泵多，而那些人随便哪个抽水都比我快得多。
Williamson had more crewmen than pumps, and any one of them could pump water far faster than I could.