据《扬子晚报》报道，最近两位爱尔兰男子在海边旅行时捡到一个漂流瓶，里面有一张写着SOS信息的纸条。
起初他们以为只是一个玩笑，但发到网上后，有网友发现内容可能与2021年失踪的一艘中国台湾渔船有关，引发关注。
这两位男子名叫马修·拉明和克里斯·赫尔利。
他们在海边玩时看到水中有一个瓶子，于是拿起来拍了照片，还带回家。
拉明说，这个瓶子被蜡封得很紧，他们想拿出里面的纸条但打不开，最后是一个朋友把瓶子砸碎，才取出纸条。
纸条上的字主要是用黑色墨水写成的，有些是英文，但大多数不是。
拉明说：“我们努力想看懂这张纸条的内容，它看起来像是一封求救信。
不过我们当时不太相信，只是觉得有意思，就把照片发到了网上。
”不久后，这个漂流瓶引起很多网友关注。
有网友指出，纸条上的语言是印尼语，还有一些简单的英文。
有人翻译后发现纸上写着：“请派人来救我们！
我们从12月30日起就在这里迷路了。
我们有3个人，不知道这座岛的名字，我们受伤了。
”底下还有几行英文写着：“HELPHELLOSOS”，以及一个中文“李”字的落款。
纸条上还写着“YuSing18”。
网友们猜测，这可能与2021年1月1日失踪的中国台湾渔船“永裕兴18号”有关。
这艘渔船是一艘金枪鱼钓船，在太平洋中部失踪。
美国的救援飞机曾在中途岛东北约600多海里的地方找到这艘船，但当时船上没人。
照片显示船窗破损，救生艇不见了，说明船员可能跳船逃生。
但李姓船长和9名印尼船员至今没有消息。
虽然拉明仍然对漂流瓶的真实性感到怀疑，但看到网友找到这么多信息后，他决定把漂流瓶交给当地警方。
警方证实，他们在2025年7月19日下午4点左右收到了相关报告。
目前，这个漂流瓶是否真的和“永裕兴18号”有关、是否能帮助找到失踪船员，仍在调查中。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 据 | jù | according to |
| 扬子 | Yáng zǐ | a name |
| 晚 | wǎn | evening / night |
| 报 | bào | newspaper / periodical; journal / bulletin / telegram |
| 报道 | bào dào | to report (news) |
| 最近 | zuì jìn | recently |
| 两 | liǎng | two / both / some / a few |
| 位 | wèi | classifier for people (honorific) |
| 爱尔兰 | Ài ěr lán | Ireland |
| 男子 | nán zǐ | a man; a male |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 海边 | hǎi biān | coast; seaside; seashore; beach |
| 旅行 | lǚ xíng | to travel |
| 时 | shí | when |
| 捡 | jiǎn | to pick up; to collect; to gather |
| 到 | dào | to reach; to arrive / to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point) / (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point) |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 漂流 | piāo liú | to float on the current / to drift along or about |
| 瓶 | píng | bottle / vase / pitcher |
| 里面 | lǐ miàn | inside / interior |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 张 | zhāng | classifier for flat objects, sheet / classifier for votes |
| 写 | xiě | to write |
| 着 | zhe | aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state |
| 信息 | xìn xī | information; news; message |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 纸条 | zhǐ tiáo | slip of paper |
| 起初 | qǐ chū | originally; at first; at the outset |
| 他们 | tā men | they; them |
| 以为 | yǐ wéi | to think; to believe |
| 只是 | zhǐ shì | merely; only; just; nothing but / simply |
| 玩笑 | wán xiào | joke / jest |
| 但 | dàn | but; yet; however; still |
| 发 | fā | to send out / to show (one's feeling) / to issue / to develop / to make a bundle of money |
| 网上 | wǎng shang | online |
| 后 | hòu | afterwards / after |
| 网友 | wǎng yǒu | online friend / netizen; Internet user |
| 发现 | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of / to discover; to find; to detect |
| 内容 | nèi róng | content; substance; details |
| 可能 | kě néng | might (happen) / maybe / perhaps |
| 与 | yǔ | (formal) with; from (marking the other participant in an interaction, comparison, or contrast) |
| 年 | nián | year |
| 失踪 | shī zōng | to be missing / to disappear |
| 艘 | sōu | classifier for ships |
| 中国 | Zhōng guó | China |
| 台湾 | Tái wān | Taiwan |
| 渔 | yú | to fish |
| 船 | chuán | boat / vessel / ship |
| 有关 | yǒu guān | to have sth to do with / to relate to / to concern |
| 引发 | yǐn fā | to lead to / to trigger / to initiate / to cause / to evoke (emotions) |
| 关注 | guān zhù | concern; interest; attention |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 名 | míng | name |
| 叫 | jiào | to be called |
| 马修·拉明 | Mǎ xiū Lā míng | Matthew Laming, a male given name plus surname. |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 克里斯·赫尔利 | Kè lǐ sī Hè ěr lì | Chris Hurley; a male personal name transliterated into Chinese. |
| 玩 | wán | to play / to have fun / to trifle with / to keep sth for entertainment |
| 看到 | kàn dào | to see |
| 水 | shuǐ | water / (after a name) ... River / (bound form) additional cost; extra income |
| 中 | zhōng | within; among; in |
| 瓶子 | píng zi | bottle |
| 于是 | yú shì | thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence |
| 拿 | ná | to hold / to seize / to catch / to apprehend / to take |
| 起来 | qǐ lái | indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement / indicating completion / expressing preliminary judgment |
| 拍 | pāi | to pat / to clap / to slap / to swat / to take (a photo) / to shoot (a film) |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 照片 | zhào piàn | photograph / picture |
| 还 | hái | in addition, also, else, even |
| 带 | dài | to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear / to bring |
| 回 | huí | to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return |
| 家 | jiā | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) |
| 拉明 | lā míng | Laming, a person's name |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 被 | bèi | used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes |
| 蜡 | là | candle / wax |
| 封 | fēng | to confer / to grant / to bestow a title / to seal |
| 得 | de | structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 紧 | jǐn | tight / strict / close at hand / near / urgent / tense / hard up / short of money |
| 想 | xiǎng | to desire; to want (to) |
| 出 | chū | (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) |
| 打 | dǎ | a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 开 | kāi | to open (transitive or intransitive) |
| 最后 | zuì hòu | finally; in the end |
| 是 | shì | indeed (used for emphasis) |
| 朋友 | péng you | friend |
| 把 | bǎ | (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}) |
| 砸 | zá | to smash / to pound / to fail / to muck up / to bungle |
| 碎 | suì | (transitive or intransitive) to break into pieces; to shatter; to crumble |
| 才 | cái | just now |
| 取 | qǔ | to take / to get / to fetch |
| 上 | shàng | (noun suffix) on; above |
| 字 | zì | letter / symbol / character / word |
| 主要 | zhǔ yào | main; principal; major; primary |
| 用 | yòng | to use; to make use of; to employ / (coverb) with; using |
| 黑色 | hēi sè | black |
| 墨水 | mò shuǐ | ink |
| 成 | chéng | to succeed / to finish / to complete / to accomplish / to become / to turn into / to be all right |
| 有些 | yǒu xiē | some |
| 英文 | Yīng wén | English (language) |
| 大多数 | dà duō shù | (great) majority |
| 不是 | bù shì | is not |
| 我们 | wǒ men | we; us; ourselves; our |
| 努力 | nǔ lì | to make an effort; to try hard; to strive |
| 看 | kàn | to see; to look at / to read / to watch / to visit; to call on / to consider; to regard as / to look after / to treat (a patient or illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after a verb) to give it a try / to watch out for |
| 懂 | dǒng | to understand / to comprehend |
| 它 | tā | it |
| 看起来 | kàn qǐ lai | seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be |
| 像 | xiàng | to resemble / to be like / to look as if |
| 求 | qiú | to seek / to look for / to request / to demand / to beseech |
| 救 | jiù | to save / to assist / to rescue |
| 信 | xìn | letter / mail |
| 不过 | bù guò | but / however |
| 当时 | dāng shí | then; at that time |
| 太 | tài | too (much) / very / extremely |
| 相信 | xiāng xìn | to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true |
| 觉得 | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ... |
| 有意思 | yǒu yì si | interesting / meaningful / enjoyable / fun |
| 就 | jiù | merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly |
| 久 | jiǔ | (of a period of time) long |
| 引起 | yǐn qǐ | to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse |
| 很多 | hěn duō | many; a lot of |
| 指出 | zhǐ chū | to indicate / to point out |
| 语言 | yǔ yán | language |
| 印尼 | Yìn ní | Indonesia (abbr. for 印度尼西亞|印度尼西亚) |
| 语 | yǔ | dialect / language / speech |
| 一些 | yī xiē | some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er |
| 简单 | jiǎn dān | simple; not complicated |
| 有人 | yǒu rén | someone / people / anyone |
| 翻译 | fān yì | to translate / to interpret |
| 纸 | zhǐ | paper |
| 请 | qǐng | please (do sth) |
| 派 | pài | to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task); to appoint (sb) |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 来 | lái | (between two verbs) in order to |
| 从 | cóng | from; through; via / (bound form) retainer; attendant / (bound form) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate / (bound form) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor |
| 月 | yuè | month / monthly |
| 日 | rì | sun / day / date, day of the month |
| 起 | qǐ | verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) |
| 这里 | zhè lǐ | here |
| 迷路 | mí lù | to lose the way |
| 知道 | zhī dào | to know; to become aware of |
| 座 | zuò | classifier for large immovable objects |
| 岛 | dǎo | island |
| 名字 | míng zi | name (of a person or thing) |
| 受伤 | shòu shāng | to sustain injuries |
| 底下 | dǐ xia | the location below sth |
| 还有 | hái yǒu | there still remain(s); there is (or are) still |
| 几 | jǐ | several / a few |
| 行 | háng | classifier for rows or lines |
| 以及 | yǐ jí | and; as well as |
| 中文 | Zhōng wén | Chinese language |
| 李 | Lǐ | surname Li |
| 落款 | luò kuǎn | inscription with name, date, or short sentence, on a painting, gift, letter etc |
| 们 | men | plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals |
| 猜测 | cāi cè | to guess / to conjecture / to surmise |
| 永裕兴 | Yǒng Yù Xīng | Name of a Taiwanese fishing vessel, as in “Yong Yu Xing 18”. |
| 号 | hào | (bound form) bugle; trumpet / (bound form) signal; bugle call / (bound form) mark; sign / (bound form) name; appellation / (after a numeral) number designation / day of the month / (bound form) size; type; category |
| 金枪鱼 | jīn qiāng yú | tuna |
| 钓 | diào | to fish with a hook and line; to angle |
| 太平洋 | Tài píng Yáng | Pacific Ocean |
| 部 | bù | ministry / department / section / part / division / troops / board |
| 美国 | Měi guó | United States; USA; US |
| 救援 | jiù yuán | to save / to support / to help / to assist |
| 飞机 | fēi jī | airplane |
| 曾 | céng | once / already / ever (in the past) / former / previously / (past tense marker used before verb or clause) |
| 中途岛 | Zhōng tú Dǎo | Midway Islands |
| 东北 | dōng běi | northeast |
| 约 | yuē | approximately |
| 多 | duō | (after a numeral) ... odd |
| 海里 | hǎi lǐ | nautical mile |
| 地方 | dì fang | place; location; area; space; territory / aspect; part |
| 找到 | zhǎo dào | to find |
| 没 | méi | (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not |
| 显示 | xiǎn shì | to show / to illustrate / to display / to demonstrate |
| 窗 | chuāng | window |
| 破损 | pò sǔn | to become damaged |
| 救生艇 | jiù shēng tǐng | lifeboat |
| 不见 | bù jiàn | not to see / not to meet / to have disappeared / to be missing |
| 说明 | shuō míng | to explain / to illustrate / to indicate / to show / to prove |
| 船员 | chuán yuán | sailor / crew member |
| 跳 | tiào | to jump / to hop / to skip over / to bounce |
| 逃生 | táo shēng | to flee for one's life |
| 姓 | xìng | family name; surname |
| 船长 | chuán zhǎng | captain (of a boat) / skipper |
| 至 | zhì | to / until |
| 今 | jīn | now / the present time |
| 没有 | méi yǒu | to not have |
| 消息 | xiāo xi | (piece of) news; information / message |
| 虽然 | suī rán | although; even though |
| 仍然 | réng rán | still; as before; yet |
| 对 | duì | towards; at; for / concerning; regarding |
| 真实 | zhēn shí | true; real |
| 性 | xìng | suffix forming adjective from verb / suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity |
| 感到 | gǎn dào | to feel; to sense; to perceive |
| 怀疑 | huái yí | to doubt (sth); to be skeptical of / to have one's doubts; to harbor suspicions; to suspect that |
| 这么 | zhè me | so much / this much / how much? |
| 他 | tā | he; him; his |
| 决定 | jué dìng | to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind |
| 交 | jiāo | to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to reach |
| 给 | gěi | to / for / for the benefit of / to do sth (for sb) |
| 当地 | dāng dì | local |
| 警方 | jǐng fāng | police |
| 证实 | zhèng shí | to confirm (sth to be true) / to verify |
| 下午 | xià wǔ | afternoon / p.m. |
| 点 | diǎn | point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock |
| 左右 | zuǒ yòu | approximately |
| 收到 | shōu dào | to receive |
| 相关 | xiāng guān | related / relevant / pertinent |
| 报告 | bào gào | report / speech / talk / lecture |
| 目前 | mù qián | at the present time / currently |
| 是否 | shì fǒu | whether (or not) / if / is or isn't |
| 真的 | zhēn de | really; truly; indeed |
| 能 | néng | can / to be able to / might possibly |
| 帮助 | bāng zhù | to help; to assist |
| 仍 | réng | still; yet / (literary) frequently; often |
| 调查 | diào chá | investigation / inquiry / survey / (opinion) poll |