This combination of characteristics—long, strong, flexible, resistant to salt water—makes Manila hemp a great material for ropes, especially for ropes that are gonna be used on ocean-going ships.

这种长、结实、柔韧、耐盐水的特性结合，使得马尼拉麻成为很好的绳索材料，特别是用于制作远洋船只的绳索。

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For thousands of years this geographical fact had been unimportant, since there were no ocean-going ships.

好几千年以来，这一地理状况几乎无足轻重，因为那时还没有能在大海航行的大船。

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The Huangpu Port, where ocean-going ships can anchor, has navigation lines reaching all continents in the world.

黄埔港可泊远洋海轮，有航线通往世界各大洲。

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At this time the Dutch are sending herrings, these long flat boats, herring ships are going all the way to Newfoundland in the seventeenth century,and Iceland, freezing off the coast of Iceland.

于此同时,荷兰人也还运输鲱鱼,这些运送鲱鱼的长板船,在十七世纪一路开往纽芬兰和冰岛等地区,并不停穿梭于被冰壳覆盖的海岸线上

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It had a vital strategic placement on a rocky bluff over the St Lawrence River, at the furthest point that ocean-going ships could venture from the Atlantic.

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"This meant that the slates which were already being exported on a smaller scale from Blaenau Ffestiniog, could be loaded onto much bigger ocean-going ships inside a sheltered harbour... and of course in 1836 the railway is bringing slates down, " he said.

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Multiple established commercial shipping routes going through the reef mean that dozens of ships going through the reef each day.

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