In the afternoon we made sail, in order to reach the harbour before dark.

下午我们加帆快速航行，以便在天黑前驶抵港口。

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The all-female yacht crew made history by becoming the first to sail round the world.

全部由女性组成的游艇船员通过首次环球航行而创造了历史。

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Finally I finished the hull and made a mast and sail.

终于，我完成了船体，并装上了桅杆和帆。

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We almost made it under sail and oar, but Norman, the skipper of the safety yacht, towed us the final half-mile to the anchorage.

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The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.

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The world's most famous cruise liner, which has made over 800 Atlantic crossings since its launch in 1967, will sail into retirement in November 2008.

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