The axle connects to the outer arms of the Wheel, which begin to rotate at a speed of 1/8 of a revolution per minute.
车轴连接到这个车轮的外臂，外臂开始以每分钟1/8转的速度旋转。
It takes just 1.5 kilowatt-hours (5.4 M J) energy to rotate the Wheel -roughly the same as boiling eight small domestic kettles of water.
转动轮子只需要1.5千瓦时（5.4兆焦耳）的能量，这与使用8壶家用小水壶的能量大致相同。
Boats needing to be lifted up enter the canal basin at the level of the Forth & Clyde Canal and then enter the lower gondola of the Wheel.
需要被吊起的船只在福斯克莱德运河的高度进入到运河港池，然后进入水轮中较低的贡多拉里。
As the wheel turned, the potter shaped the clay.
随着轮子的转动，制陶工人给黏土塑形。
He gripped the wheel until his knuckles whitened.
他紧紧握住方向盘，握得指关节都变白了。
The nuts weren't properly tightened and the wheel came off.
螺母没拧紧，轮子脱落了。
Curtis got behind the wheel and they started back toward the cottage.
柯蒂斯开车，他们启程返回小屋。
He spun the wheel sharply and made a U turn in the middle of the road.
他猛打方向盘，在路中间掉了个头。
Some of these ideas are worth pursuing, but there is no need to reinvent the wheel.
这些观点中有些值得进一步探究，但是没有必要全部重来。
As the wheel turned, the potter shaped and squeezed the lump of clay into a graceful shape.
随着轮盘的转动，陶工把那块黏土塑造、挤捏成了一个优雅的造型。
As the cable wraps itself around the wheel, there is provision for adjusting the tension of the cable.
缆绳绕在轮子上时就留了调整缆绳松紧的余地。
If I had stopped rolling you around on the wheel, you would have been out of shape.
如果我不让你在轮子上滚来滚去，你就会走形了。
The farm buildings and the wheel-house were all dim and bluish.
农场房屋和操舵室都模模糊糊，呈现着浅蓝色。
The invention of the bows itself ranks with discovery of fire and the wheel.
弓箭的发明本身与火和车轮的发现并列。
Getting behind the wheel of a car can be an exciting new step in a teen's life.
在青少年的生活中，开车是一件令人兴奋的新事情。
Not at all, was the reply, "only the boy was the wind which blew away the wheel-chair."
“一点也不，”对方回答，“这个男孩就是把轮椅吹走的那阵风。”
As the wheel rotates, the gondolas are kept in the upright position by a simple gearing system.
当车轮转动时，贡多拉通过一个简单的传动系统保持在垂直位置。
Persuading people to switch their phones off altogether when they get behind the wheel might be the only answer.
说服人们在开车时关掉手机可能是唯一的方法。
We hope that our work will help with technological solutions to ensure that older drivers stay safer behind the wheel.
我们希望我们的工作能有助于提供技术上的解决方案，以确保年纪较大的司机在驾驶时更安全。
It was freezing cold outside, so I didn't want to get out of the car and just stayed at the wheel when we passed a cafe.
外面很冷，所以当我们经过一家咖啡馆时，我不想下车，就呆在驾驶座上。
A hydraulic clamp, which prevents the arms of the wheel moving while the gondola is docked, is removed, allowing the wheel to turn.
液压夹具可防止贡多拉停靠时轮子的臂部移动，移除这个液压夹具可以让轮子转动起来。
Nearly every driver has experienced that feeling of great tiredness, where it becomes almost impossible to stay awake at the wheel.
几乎每个司机都经历过那种极度疲劳的感觉，在那种情况下开车几乎不可能保持清醒。
Once a vehicle had settled into automated travel, the driver would be free to release the wheel, open the morning paper or just relax.
一旦车辆进入自动驾驶状态，司机就可以任意放开方向盘，打开晨报，或者放松一下。
If the wheel axle pin squeaked, or the beam had sapwood in it, or the haystack leaned, everyone in the village would know who had done these.
若是车轮的轴销嘎吱作响，或是横梁里掺了边材，或是干草堆斜歪了，村里的所有人都会知道这是谁干的。
Other inventions—the wheel, agriculture, sliced bread—may have transformed our material existence, but the advent of language is what made us human.
其他发明——如车轮、农耕、切片面包——可能改变了我们的物质生活，但语言的出现才真正塑造了人类。
Sleep experts often compare people without enough sleep to drunk drivers: They don't get behind the wheel thinking they're probably going to kill someone.
睡眠专家经常把睡眠不足的人比作酒后司机：他们开车的时候不会想着可能会撞死人。
They also proved that, in principle, the overshot wheel, a type of wheel in which an overhead stream of water powers the wheel, should win the efficiency competition.
他们还证明，原则上，打捞轮（一种由高架水流驱动该轮的轮）应该会赢得效率竞争。
Other innovations of the late fourth millennium include the wheel, probably developed first as a more efficient way of making pottery and then transferred to transport.
第四千禧年后期的其他创新包括轮子，可能首先是作为一种更有效的制陶方式发展起来的，然后才被转移到运输上。
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