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 # any more hope that we should be saved was abandoned
 
-This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "everyone stopped hoping we would survive" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
+This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "everyone abandoned hope that we would  be saved" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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+# any more hope that we should be saved was abandoned
+
+Here the word "hope" is a person's thought that what he desires might happen. Here the men on the boat had no reason to believe that they would be rescued, so they quit hoping. Alternate translation: "we quit thinking that we might be saved" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns)
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+# be saved
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+"be rescued." Since there is no mention of the people praying for God to save them, this might simply have the sense of "survive."