澳大利亚国立大学的史前学教授阿索尔·安德森表示，这一切都以一个重要的细节为前提：拉皮塔人已经掌握了逆风航行的高级艺术。
All this presupposes one essential detail, says Atholl Anderson, professor of prehistory at the Australian National University: the Lapita had mastered the advanced art of sailing against the wind.
因此方帆船无法逆风航行。
昨天的航行并不顺利，我们一天都逆风航行。
Sailing was rough yesterday; we sailed against the wind all day.
当强风来袭的时候，没有必要逆风航行。
When the wind's blowing at gale force, there's no point in sailing against it.
当时他们正在逆风航行。
我们逆风航行一小时。
我们逆风航行。
你需要时而顺风航行或者有时而逆风航行，无论怎样，你必须航行。
You need sometime sail with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail , you must.
船经过漫长而乏味的航行后，遇到了逆风和逆流。
A ship, after a long and tedious voyage, was met by head-winds and unfavorable currents.
尽管方帆船在顺风或无风航行时十分高效，它们逆风行驶时从帆前缘得到的动力却不如百慕大帆多，而帆前缘的动力在现代成为了主要动力。
Remarkably efficient sailing downwind or well off the wind, square sails do not generate power from their leading edge as in the Bermuda rig, which has become predominant in modern times.
舵手很容易操纵救生筏，但是他们不能在逆风中航行。
The men were able to steer the raft, but they could not sail against the wind.
出发时将会遇到热带高温和轻微逆风，接下来向北航行，气温降低，风量将直接从前方袭来，海面状况将极具挑战。
It starts in tropical heat and light headwinds and then, as you track north, the weather turns colder, the winds come from directly ahead and the sea kicks up to deliver a real challenge.
我们又从那里开了船，因为是逆风，便沿塞浦路斯背风的海面航行。
And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
迎风返回：一种航行路线，要求船只逆风行驶，到达第一个标记后返回，顺风到达第二个标记。
Windward return: a type of course configuration requiring the boats to sail into the wind to a mark, then with the wind when returning to a second mark.
对于一只盲目航行的船来说，所有方向的风都是逆风。
对于一只盲目航行的船来说，所有方向的风都是逆风。
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