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单词 Birkenhead drill
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Birkenhead drill

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Women and children first

(重定向自Birkenhead drill)
Thomas Hemy's famous painting (circa 1892) of soldiers standing fast on HMS Birkenhead while the women and children head off in a lifeboat in the background
Novelist William Douglas O'Connor
RMS Titanic survivors aboard a collapsible lifeboat

"Women and children first" (or to a lesser extent, the Birkenhead Drill) is a code of conduct whereby the lives of women and children are to be saved first in a life-threatening situation (typically abandoning ship, when survival resources such as lifeboats were limited).

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