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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Meanwhile, the construction of ocean-going ships was banned.

与此同时，远洋航巡的船只修建也被禁止。

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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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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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By the time he reaches the other end and looks back, he feels more as if he were standing on a dock gazing up at the prow of a huge ocean-going vessel, perhaps one of Pessoa's dream ships.

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