双桅帆船一种有纵帆装置的双桅航船，类似于双桅纵帆船，但在船尾的船舵放置有一种较小的补助帆桅。
A two-masted fore - and-aft-rigged sailing vessel similar to the ketch but having a smaller jigger mast stepped abaft the rudder.
快速是它最大的优势，军用快船在搜索和对抗双桅纵帆船以及小型三桅船方面表现出色，所以它们经常成为海盗头子的首选。
Their great speed was often their best advantage. Cutters were good vessels for scouting and competing against ships like Schooners or Xebecs that were often captained by pirates.
在那个春天的午后，魏斐德和我在伯克利聊了有两个小时，我们谈了他们家庭的冒险故事以及双桅纵帆船在那个危险的珊瑚礁群搁浅时的情景。
On that spring afternoon in Berkeley, Fred and I talked for two hours about his family's adventure, about its climax when the ketch ran aground on shoals in the same perilous archipelago.
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