In the navy,he learned all about navigation,mathematics, mechanics,communications and electronics engineering.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

You konw, the British practicing mercantilism passed navigation acts, saying what ships could carry what and so on -nothing like that in the Greek world.

例如英国以颁布《航海法》,来体现重商主义,他们认为船能带来各种各样的财富,但在希腊不是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This is again the sort of existential condition in which Hobbes wants to put us in the state of nature and all the benefits he lists there, he enumerates, that are denied to us in such a condition, again no knowledge, no geography, no cultivation of the earth, no navigation or building.

这也是霍布斯,把我们置于自然状态,和他列举的益处的,现存状态中，在这种状态中,否认知识，地理，土地栽培，航海和舒适建筑的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"And Quentin,with his unorthodox methods of navigation, this fearless explorer took this ship across and brought it in with flying colors, and that's why I'm here."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08