Their one purpose of speed over the great ocean routes was achieved by perfect balance of spars and sails to the curving lines of the smooth black hull. (Samuel Eliot Morison).

他们靠把桅和帆完美地平衡到黑色平滑船壳的曲线上实现了快速驶过大洋的目的。(塞缪尔·艾略特·莫里森)。

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Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23