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。
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 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。
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。
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 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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。”
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。
It's called Smart Wheel, and it's designed to fit over the steering wheel of most standard vehicles to track whether or not the driver has two hands on the wheel at all times.
它被称为智能方向盘，它的设计适合大多数标准车辆的方向盘，用来跟进驾驶员是否一直将两只手放在方向盘上。
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。
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。
"We are trying to create awareness in high schools across the countries," said Westerman, an Allstate representative, "we focus on changing how teens think behind the wheel."
“我们正努力在全国的高中里树立这样的意识，”好事达的一位代表韦斯特曼说，“我们致力于改变青少年开车时的思维方式。”
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
It also watches for what's called "close by hands", where both hands are close together near the top of the wheel, so the driver can type with both thumbs and drive at the same time.
它还关注所谓的“近距离接触”，即两只手靠近方向盘顶部，这样司机就可以一边开车一边用两个拇指打字。
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。
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。
The nation that we now think of as one of the most technologically advanced entered the 19th century having "abandoned the wheel".
我们现在认为的科技最发达的其中一个国家在进入19世纪时就“放弃了车轮”。
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。
It also watches for what's called "close-by hands", where both hands are close together near the top of the wheel, so the driver can type with both thumbs and drive at the same time.
在双手靠近“智能方向盘”顶部的地方，方向盘套还会监视所谓的“附近的手”，这样司机就可以一边用两个大拇指打字一边开车了。
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