In such a way that the wind pushes against the forward side of a sail or sails.
船处于顶风位置的风以阻碍船只前进的方式推动。
A triangular or tapering piece of cloth forming a part of something, as in a skirt or sail.
形三角布组成如裙子或帆的一部分的三角形或锥形的布块。
The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.
年轻人可以建筑，也可以耕种，也可以航海，只要不阻挠他去做他告诉我他愿意做的事，就好了。
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。
We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco.
我们多少有些心血来潮地决定乘船去摩洛哥。
A usually triangular sail attached to the forestay or headstay of a sailboat.
一面通常是三角形的帆，安装在帆船的前桅支索或前支索上。
Modern solar sail spacecraft designs, like NanoSail-D or the Japanese interplanetary spacecraft IKAROS, rely on the small but continuous pressure from sunlight itself for thrust.
现代太阳帆航天器的设计，如纳米帆- D或者日本的行星飞船IKAROS，是以很少但是持续的太阳光为推动力。
Japan continues to have a program, and test solar sails have been deployed from satellites or rockets, but no one has ever gotten as far as trying to sail them anywhere.
日本一直有这样的计划，并且测试通过卫星和火箭部署的太阳帆，但是目前还没有人试着让帆飞行到任何地方去。
Night watch also has to adjust the sail (or the SPAR) if winds change direction or strength.
假如风向和风力有变化，夜间值守的人还需要调整船帆。
A large ship, with three masts, lay becalmed on the water, with only one sail set; for not a breeze stiffed, and the sailors sat idle on deck or amongst the rigging.
船上只挂了一张帆，因为没有一丝儿风吹动。水手们正坐在护桅索的周围和帆桁的上面。
Tacking or gybing a complicated sail plan like this takes a lot of crew and expertise!
在这样一艘帆结构复杂的船上进行抢风转变航向(tacking)或转帆(gybing)时，需要大量的水手和技能！
Fewer options to reduce sail area with stronger winds (only reefing or furling).
遇到强风时，减少帆面积的方法比较少，只能是收帆或缩帆(reefing orfurling)。
Verb: Luffing refers to a shaking or movement of the leading edge of a sail when it is not in trim.
动词1：luffing指的是当帆不平整时，帆的前缘的摇动或移动。
Ketch RIGS generally do not sail as fast or as close to the wind as a sloop.
不如单桅帆船快或者贴近风向。
"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。”
A line, made of rope or wire with a rope tail, that is used to hoist a sail.
一根用来悬挂帆布的绳索，由麻绳或带着麻绳尾巴的钢丝做成。
Alternatively Icarus could use an extremely large magnetic sail to help decelerate, once within reach of the target star's solar wind or magnetosphere.
或者伊卡洛斯飞船可以在到达目标恒星系统时，使用一张超大的磁力网，借助当地的太阳风或磁场来辅助减速。
Increasing thrust once in space could be a matter of adding more wires to the sail or making the wires longer.
而要想在空间中提高助推力，只需要给太阳帆增加更多的金属线或者释放更长的金属线。
Once the power begins to run down, an afternoon or so at sea under sail will recharge the batteries, says William Ray, Paracas's director of engineering.
帕拉·卡斯工程总监威廉姆•雷说，一旦电源开始耗尽，在海上扬帆一个下午左右就可以给电池充电。
Galleon’s traders were encouraged to sail close to the wind—as one put it, you “get an edge or you’re gone”.
帆船集团的人被鼓励顶风而行，正如一个人所说的，你“要么站在边上，要么就掉下去”。
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。
People have mused about the function of argonauts’ striking shell-like structures at least since Aristotle suggested that the animals sail or row them like boats.
人们一直在琢磨舡鱼敲打自己贝壳状外表的用意，亚里士多德曾经推测，其功能是否有点类似划船。
History tells us that when pursuing a great cause, we could never expect a smooth sail or reach the destination overnight.
历史告诉我们，任何伟大的事业都不可能一帆风顺，不可能一蹴而就。
For example, if the sail is let out too far for the wind's direction, the leading edge may shake or start to blow inward. Tightening up the sheet usually corrects luffing.
例如，当帆在风向上被放出太多时，它的前缘可能会抖动或开始向内侧弯，将绳索拉紧通常能矫正之。
Shall we then allow him to sail out unharmed, or shall we first take away from him that which he brought with him?
我们是应该放他出海，不加伤害，还是应该先把他带来的一切都没收？
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。
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。
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