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sail (obj) TRAVELseIlvto (cause (a boat) to) travel across water using sails or an engine(船)航行;扬帆行驶I learned to sail when I was only eight. [I]我8岁时就学会开船了。We sailed up/down the river. [I]我们向河的上游/下游驶去。The boat sailed along/down the coast. [I]小船沿着海岸驶去。As the ship sailed by/past, everyone on deck waved. [I]当船驶过时，甲板上每一个人都挥动着手。She sailed around the world single-handed in her yacht. [I]她驾着游艇独自周游世界。The ship was sailing to China. [I]这艘船正在驶向中国。When do we sail (= When does our ship leave)? [I]我们什么时候启航？Their ship sails (= leaves) for Bombay next Friday. [I]他们的船下星期五前往孟买。The oil tanker was sailing under a foreign flag (= was officially using another country's flag). [I]这艘油船使用外国船籍航行。It'll be a slow journey-- we're sailing against the wind (= the wind is blowing towards us). [I]船将开得很慢----我们在顶风开船。He's sailing against the wind (= opposing the ideas of most people) in his fight to stop women using the club.他拼命阻止妇女加入俱乐部，这违背了众人的意图。You were sailing a bit close to the wind there (= taking a risk by doing something that was dangerous, illegal or unacceptable) when you made those remarks about his wife.当你在议论他的妻子时，你可是在冒天下之大不韪啊。The children were sailing their toy yachts on the pond in the park. [T]孩子们在公园的池子里玩着玩具游艇。Thor Heyerdahl sailed (across) the Pacific in the Kon-Tiki in 1947. [T; I + across]托尔·海尔达尔在1947年驾着“康-提基号”木筏横渡太平洋。They go sailing (= take part in the sport of using boats with sails) every weekend. [I]他们每个周末都要去驾帆船。"They sailed away for a year and a day, / To the land where the Bong-tree grows" (from the poem The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear, 1870)“他们离岸已一年又一天/驶向“梆”树生长的地方”(引自爱德华·李尔的诗歌 《猫头鹰和猫咪》，1870)"In fourteen hundred and ninety-two / Columbus sailed the ocean blue" (verse by Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr.)“在一四九二年/哥伦布航行于蓝色的海洋”(引自小W·S·斯多纳的诗歌)
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