stern stay 中文意思是什麼
stern stay
解釋
船尾支索-
" she was a - visiting there at booth s landing, and just in the edge of the evening she started over with her nigger woman in the horse - ferry to stay all night at her friend s house, miss what - you - may - call - her i disremember her name - and they lost their steeringoar, and swung around and went a - floating down, stern first, about two mile, and saddle - baggsed on the wreck, and the ferryman and the nigger woman and the horses was all lost, but miss hooker she made a grab and got aboard the wreck
正是黃昏時分，她和黑女傭上了渡騾馬的渡船，準備在一個朋友家住一晚上，那個朋友叫什麼什麼小姐來著，名字我記不住了。渡船上的人丟了掌舵的槳，船就打圈圈，往下游漂去，船尾朝前，漂了兩英里多路，碰到那條破船上，就給撞翻了。擺渡的和黑女傭以及一些馬匹，全都沖走了。 -
Rigging and fitting my mast and sails ; for i finish d them very compleat, making a small stay, and a sail, or foresail to it, to assist, if we should turn to windward ; and which was more than all, i fix d a rudder to the stern of her, to steer with ; and though i was but a bungling shipwright, yet as i knew the usefulness, and even necessity of such a thing, i apply d my self with so much pains to do it, that at last i brought it to pass ; though considering the many dull contrivances i had for it that sail d, i think it cost me almost as much labour as making the boat
他當然是個劃船的好手，可是對使用帆和舵卻一竅不通。他見我用手掌舵，駕著小舟在海上往來自如，又見那船帆隨著船行方向的變化，一會兒這邊灌滿了風，一會兒那邊灌滿了風，不禁大為驚訝-簡直驚訝得有點發呆了。可是，不久我就教會了他使用舵和帆，很快他就能熟練駕駛，成了一個出色的水手。
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