We've come a very long way from the early exploration of the world by sailing ships when geographers only had pens and paper at their disposal.

我们从早期通过航行开始的球探测经过了很长时间才到了现在，那时的理学家只有纸笔可用。

By the 8th century, a sailing ship began to make sense: it could go further, faster, in search of newly available plunder.

到了八世纪，帆船才应运而生：在搜寻新战利品时，它可以航行更快、更远。

I discovered from them that the ship was sailing to the Carolinas, in North America.

从他们那儿我发现船正驶洲的卡罗来纳。

Do what the Norwegians do and cruise down the fjord on a traditional wooden sailing ship. And who said there's no such thing as a free lunch?

模仿挪威人的做法，乘坐传统木制帆船航行于峡湾之间。谁说世界上没有免费的午餐?

Later, he watched a show of tall sailing ships in New York Harbor.

后来，他在纽约港观看了一场盛的帆船表演。

The tall sailing ship seemed a bit closer.

那只高的、正在行驶的船似乎靠近了点儿。

That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as he sailor has in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship; you must keep your face toward it all the time.

在海上航行的水手们通常都会将航海图熟记于心，你也必须像水手那样，清楚牢记这幅描述愿望的画面中的所有内容，并且始终坚定不照图中所示去努力。

After more than six years of underwater survey and exploration, archaeologists confirmed Yangtze River Estuary No.2 as a wooden sailing ship from the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor (1862-1874) of the Qing Dynasty.

经过六年多的水下勘察和勘探，考古学家确认长江口二号是清朝同治皇帝（1862-1874）时期的木制帆船。

As usual, a crowd gathered to watch the docking, an exciting event in 1815, for the handling of big sailing ships was an art.

同常一样，人们蜂拥而至，一同观看船驶入港口的景象，这在1815年可是件令人兴奋的事，驾驶型帆船可算得上是门艺术了。

In 1926 an unusual vessel arrived in New York after crossing the Atlantic. This was a converted sailing ship renamed Baden-Baden.

1926年，一艘不寻常的船只横渡西洋抵达纽约。这是一艘经过改装的帆船，更名为巴登巴登号。

For hundreds of years sailing ships had been built in that way, and they were slow, clumsy, and hard to handle.

数百年来，轮船都是这个模样，它们很笨拙，不易操作。

One of the most famous sailing ships of the nineteenth century, the Cutty Sark, can still be seen at Greenwich.

人们在格林威治仍可看到19世纪最有名的帆船之一“卡蒂萨克”号。

As I said that the rich only knew about corporations, which became popular in the days of sailing ships.

正如我所说的，他们非常了解公司的魔力，而公司在海上贸易兴盛时变得日益普遍。

Visitors watched images of the disassembled wooden sailing ship on a large monitor inside the nearby Solar Boat Museum.

游客通过附近的太阳船博物馆的巨的显示器观看分解过的木制帆船的图像。

Fortunately, there's a way to clean up the industry, beyond just reviving old-fashioned sailing ships, and it's...green ammonia.

幸运的是，有办法可以净化这个产业，不是通过复兴老土的帆船，而是通过绿氨。

A few sailing ships, laden for the East Indies, were heading toward the Cape of Good Hope.

只有几艘帆船，运货物到印度，向好望角驶去。

And yes, your classic stories of humans intervening in nature and causing disasters, like bringing rodents to islands, that stowed away on colonial sailing ships.

是的，你可能听过许多人类干预自然并造成灾难的经典故事，比如啮齿动物藏在殖民帆船里并被带到岛屿上的故事。

The Cutty Sark was one of the fastest sailing ships that has ever been built.

“卡蒂萨克”号是帆船制造史上建造的最快的一艘帆船。

Then came the Yankee clippers, the swiftest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built.

之后是洋基快船，它是史上最漂亮，最快速的船只。

IN AN AGE OF SAILING SHIPS AND SAILS RULED THE WAVES.

在帆船和风帆统治海浪的时代。