'I was employed, Sir,' said the captain, 'on secret orders, and to sail this ship where that gentleman ordered me to sail it.
“我秘密受雇于人，先生，”船长说，“这位先生让我去哪儿我就去哪儿。”
A maverick Australian mining billionaire, Clive Palmer, plans to build the Titanic II and sail it from England to New York by the end of 2016.
特立独行的澳大利亚矿业富豪克莱夫·帕尔默计划出资修建“泰坦尼克2”号游轮，这艘游轮将在2016年底前从英格兰驶往纽约。
We can never promise to sail anywhere in particular, because the weather might militate against it.
天有不测风云，所以我们永远都不会保证具体航行到哪个地方。
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。
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。
It seemed to sail on waves of air, just like a sailboat on ocean waves.
它似乎在气浪上扬帆航行，就像海浪上的一艘帆船。
It became impossible to sail off the map, there was nowhere left to misplace Paradise and the imagination had less to do.
航行如果不借助地图就不可能实现，而地图上也没留下什么地方可将天堂摆错位置，想象可发挥作用的地方也不多了。
How it works: Photons strike an immense sail of ultrathin material.
工作原理：光子击打在一张用超薄材料制作的巨大的帆上。
And here it is hot but pleasingly so, as a friendly wind is usually puffing our sail and cooling us as well.
这儿的天气也很热，但是还好有风能吹动我们的船帆，并给我们带来凉爽。
The halyard typically rises from the head of the sail to a block at the head of the mast and back down to deck level, from where it is pulled up to raise the sail.
升降索通常从帆的前侧延伸到桅杆顶端，然后下降到甲板平面，在甲板上拉起升降索就能升起船帆。
Janhunen says it would take a 440-pound (200-kilogram) spacecraft using an electric sail less than five years to travel between Earth and dwarf planet Pluto.
Janhunen说，采用该电驱动帆作为动力，440磅(200千克)重的航天器从地球飞到冥王星所需时间少于5年。
They draw their energy from sunlight (the reflected light exerts a small pressure on the sail, driving it forward) and therefore need no fuel.
它们利用太阳光获取能量(反射的阳光施加小量压力与太阳帆上，进而驱动其前进)，因而无需燃料。
If it cost no more to sail through the Arctic than anywhere else, yes: the savings per voyage would be huge.
如果航行穿过北极不比穿过任何其它地方花费更多，那将是相称的：每一次航程的节省将是巨大的。
Its design provides for more stability - with its flatter profile, it ACTS less like a sail, making it less susceptible to winds during flights of up to 1240 miles.
它的设计能够提供更好的稳定性——更平坦的外形，但是其作用并不像帆，这样能够在最远1240英里的飞行中更好地减少风的影响。
He protects it, sits next to it all the time and chases away any sail boats that get anywhere nearby.
它保护著这条船，一直待在它旁边，而且如果有别的船只接近，它还会驱赶它们。
At that speed, it will escape the galaxy's grasp and sail off into intergalactic space.
按照这样的速度移动，它将脱离银河系的掌握，飞入星际空间。
This 800 foot long bridge has a space 28 feet when closed but opens in the center until it reaches 140 feet which allows ships to sail.
这个800英尺长的大桥关闭时拥有28英尺的桥下空间，而当中部打开时则达到140英尺，以允许船舶通过。
Many believe the answer lies in using a space sail that harnesses the sun's energy to keep a spacecraft accelerating long after it escapes Earth's atmosphere and reaches deep space.
许多人相信，答案在于利用太阳能来加速航天器。航天器逃离地球大气层后利用太阳能能进行长程加速，因此可以更快地到达深空。
But the faithful servant, who had witnessed the whole thing, secretly lowered a small boat from the ship and set out in it, following his master and letting the traitors sail away.
可是，那个忠实的仆人，把他们那些卑鄙的勾当全看在眼里。他偷偷地从大船上下来，放下一只小船，向主人的方向追去，让那些坏人驾着大船先走了。
When you sail south you don’t exactly find the Antarctic continent. Rather, it gathers round you in the shape of icebergs, islands, coves and bays.
当船只朝南航行时，你不会很确切地发现南极大陆，而是在四周看见冰山、岛屿、海岬和海湾。
When you sail south you don’t exactly find the Antarctic continent. Rather, it gathers round you in the shape of icebergs, islands, coves and bays.
当船只朝南航行时，你不会很确切地发现南极大陆，而是在四周看见冰山、岛屿、海岬和海湾。
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