foresail 中文意思是什麼
foresail
解釋
n. 名詞 【航海】（橫帆船的）前桅帆。-
Her two masts leaned a trifle backward ; she carried brigantine, foresail, storm - jib and standing - jib, and was well rigged for running before the wind ; and she seemed capable of brisk speed, which, indeed, she had already proved by gaining several prizes in pilot - boat races
船上有兩只稍向後傾的大帆，此外還有后檣梯形帆，前中帆，前檣三角帆，外前帆和頂帆。唐卡德爾號在順風的時候可以利用這一套應有盡有的設備。 -
We can patch up the main and mizzen. foresail ' s gone, so we ' ii bend our spare
我們可以修好主桅以及後桅前桅的大帆也不能用了，我們只好用備用的 -
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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