The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world's ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century.
蒸汽的高成本、加上货运对速度的低需求，使得世界上大多数的海运货物都是通过帆船来运输的，直到20世纪初，这一状况才有所改变。
"I love the sea," said Antivari, "and so I also love all of the different ways to enjoy the sea, whether by sail boat or by motorboat."
“我热爱大海，”安蒂瓦瑞说，“所以我喜欢用各种不同的方式来享受大海，无论是乘坐帆船还是乘坐汽艇。”
She says the boat would be shaped like a capsule, powered by a small nuclear engine, and though there would be no sail, it would have a mast to hold a camera.
她说船将被制成胶囊形，由一个小型核动力引擎驱动，尽管不会有帆，但船上会有一个固定照相机的桅杆。
The boat may be imbalanced by having that weight far astern and may "squat" in the water and not sail as well.
船只可能会因其重量在尾部而变得不平衡，可能会在水里“蹲下”而不能正常航行。
Sail area is usually planned by boat designers based on the boat's size, displacement (weight), and hull shape and configuration - not the number of masts or sails.
帆面积通常是由帆船设计者根据帆船的尺寸，重量，船底形状和配置来确定的，而非根据桅杆或船帆的数量。
It probably set sail from Guangzhou, the largest of the ports linked by the Maritime Silk Route.
而且很有可能事在广州启航，当时的广州是海上丝绸之路的港口中最大的港口。
For the more adventurous, sky-skiing involves being strapped into a harness attached to a parachute-like sail, and pulled along over the water by boat.
如果想玩更刺激的，那就可以选择水上滑翔降落伞(sky-skiing)——人被绑在一个像降落伞一样的帆上，由一艘船拉着在水面上前进。
The sail in front, called the jib or sometimes the head sail, mounts on the forestay between the bow and the masthead, with its trailing corner controlled by the jibsheet.
前帆，被称作jib，有时也叫headsail，安装在连接船头和桅杆顶端之间的前桅支索上，其后部的帆脚由前帆帆脚索(jibsheet)控制。
A problem with a sail on the 28ft boat delayed his arrival in Antigua by 24 hours.
在航行途中佩勒姆驾驶的船的帆出现了点毛病，这使得他到达终点时比预计时间完了24小时。
Every day of the year, in ports all over the world, vast cargo ships sail in, unnoticed by almost all of us who rely on their merchandise.
一年当中的每一天，大型的货船驶入全球各个港口，但几乎没机会被我们这些天天依赖其运送的货物的人注意到。
With a very large outboard motor, for example, the boat may be imbalanced by having that weight far astern and may "squat" in the water and not sail as well.
例如，如果装了一台很大的舷外发动机，船只可能会因其重量而变得不平衡，尾部偏重，用俗话说倾向于在水中“蹲着”，而影响航行。
When Columbus set sail, he apparently assumed the Earth was round, which was why he was convinced that he could get to India by going west.
哥伦布起航的时候，他显然假定地球是圆的，这样他就坚信自己可以通过向西到达印度。
H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Pringle Stokes and accompanied by the Adventure, a storage ship commanded by Captain Phillip Parker King, set sail on its first survey mission to South America.
英国舰队贝格尔号在普林格尔斯托克的率领下，会同由菲利普帕克金指挥的开拓号储藏船，出发执行她的第一次南美考察任务。
Believing that Asia could be reached by traveling westward, Columbus's three-ship expedition set sail from Palos, Spain, in 1492.
1492年，坚信向西航行能抵达亚洲的哥伦布，带领他的三艘远征船从西班牙的帕洛斯起航了。
You sail into a bay in bright sunshine and air scrubbed clean by the ceaseless circumpolar wind.
当你在明亮的阳光下驶入海湾，空气因风暴的反复冲刷而清澈透明。
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.
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。
The boats are small, about 20 feet long by 9 feet wide, and powered by a single sail.
这种帆船非常小，长约20英尺，宽约9英尺，凭单帆驱动。
The vessels are taken over by armed pirates and then forced to sail to an unknown destination, where the cargo is discharged into a smaller tanker, and then the vessel is brought back and released.
船只被持有武器的海盗劫持，被迫驶向未知的目的地，货物被分装到小一些的油轮，然后，船只被带回并获释。
Some sailors landed, but so many of them were killed by the natives that the captain was glad to embark again and sail for home, after calling the place of their disaster Cape Keer-weer, or Turnagain.
上岸的水手很多被土著所杀，船长借机返船离开，后来把这个给他们带来灾难的地方称为科尔·维尔角或者土那甘。
The bill, proposed by state senator Elaine Alquist, is set to sail through the health committee, onto the state senate floor, and, eventually, into California state law.
这项由州参议员伊兰·阿尔奎斯特(ElaineAlquist)提交的法案准备经健康委员会传至州参议院并最终写入加州法律。
Its roof resembles a ship in full sail and is covered by over 1 million white tiles.
歌剧院的屋顶结构看上去像是一艘扬帆远航的帆船。屋顶由超过100万枚白色瓦片所覆盖。
The NanoSail-D may be followed over the next three years by another solar sail, this one built by the Planetary Society, a nonprofit space advocacy organization in Pasadena, Calif.
NanoSail - d结束飞行任务三年后，将有另外一个太阳帆发射升空，它由位于加州Pasadena的非营利性组织行星社(The PlanetarySociety)制造。
So that, by the time the captain's party was ready to sail, there were several other whaling vessels on the point of starting.
于是，到船长的捕鲸队准备停当的时候，几艘其他的捕鲸船也正要出发了。
They were forced to sail towards Somalia before being moved onto a container ship, the Kota Wajar, which was seized by the pirates earlier this month.
在把他们转移到集装箱船之前，他们被迫驶往索马里。 在本月早些时候，这帮海盗劫持了这艘集装箱船KotaWajar。
They were forced to sail towards Somalia before being moved onto a container ship, the Kota Wajar, which was seized by the pirates last month.
被劫持后，他们先被迫驶向索马里，随后又被转移到一艘在上月被海盗劫持的集装箱船KotaWajar号上。
They were forced to sail towards Somalia before being moved onto a container ship, the Kota Wajar, which was seized by the pirates last month.
被劫持后，他们先被迫驶向索马里，随后又被转移到一艘在上月被海盗劫持的集装箱船KotaWajar号上。
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