He had adopted Ayers's and wife as his New York surrogate parents and took the occasion to drain them of all their nautical knowledge.

他把埃尔斯和他的妻子作为他在纽约的代理父母，并利用这个机会榨干他们所有的航海知识。

He was, however, a patron, not only of sailors themselves, but of a special school at Sagres in which nautical knowledge was collected and new maps were made, and all kinds of awesome stuff happened.

然而，他不仅是水手们的赞助人，而且还是萨格里什一所特殊学校的赞助人， 在该学校收集航海知识并制作新地图， 并发生了各种令人敬畏的事情。