“我们将要做的事情是浪漫的，”他补充说，目前还没有人知道该如何制造能进行真正旅行所用的足够大和薄的帆。

"We ought to be doing things that are romantic," he said, adding that nobody knew yet how to build sails big and thin enough for serious travel.

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根据风吹过船帆时产生动力的物理原理，当船只航行在风里时，高而薄的帆通常产生更大的力。

Because of the physics of how force is generated by wind blowing past a sail, tall thin sails generally have more power when the boat is sailing into the wind.

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