In the morning I spotted this island's lofty summits a few miles to leeward.

我早晨距离几里下方，望见了这岛上高耸山峰。

Mr. Lawrence, take us leeward, head us straight for the school.

劳伦斯先生 转向背风 直接驶向鲸鱼群。

Turn the ship! Turn to leeward!

转舵 转向背风！

When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.

火发上风，无攻下风。

Quiet! Commander Farragut said. Helm hard to leeward! Reverse engines!

不要作声，法拉古舰说，把稳舵，船迎着凤：开倒车！

Setting sail to the rising wind, the lonely boat was swiftly impelled to leeward, by both oars and canvas.

风势见，小艇迎风扬帆，帆桨并用，迅速向下风头逼去。

I saw the Island of Hawaii two miles to leeward, the largest of the seven islands making up this group.

我上平台望见下凤两里左右夏威夷岛，它是形成这群岛七个岛中最大一个。

All across these mountains, grizzly bears make their winter dens 10,000 feet up in the deep snow of leeward slopes.

这些山脉中灰熊将背风坡厚厚积雪之下。海拔高达三千米。

The harbor pilot went down into his dinghy and rejoined a little schooner waiting for him to leeward.

领港人从大船下来，上了他小艇。

The frigate lay abreast of Cabo Blanco, thirty miles to leeward of the coast of Patagonia.

跟白呷同一纬度地方。

Yes, I could smell'n, being to leeward'.

是，我能闻到'n， 处于下风'。

Part of the squall had passed off to leeward, and entirely concealed the barque.

一部分风暴已经移到下风处， 完全遮住了我们船。

Perhaps they hadn't seen us go overboard; and even if they had, the frigate-being undone by its rudder-couldn't return to leeward after us.

可能我们掉下海时候，人家没有看见，也可能看见了，但因为战舰舵坏了。不能回到这边来救我们。

The four whales slain that evening had died wide apart; one, far to windward; one less distant, to leeward; one ahead; one astern.

那天傍晚捕杀四头鲸鱼死地方相距很远；一个是很远上风头；一个下风头，稍近些；一个船前方；一个船后方。

Soon all the boats but Starbuck's were dropped; all the boat-sails set—all the paddles plying; with rippling swiftness, shooting to leeward; and Ahab heading the onset.

不久，所有小艇都放下水去，除了斯塔巴克那艘。小艇上帆都扯了起来——大桨小桨都猛划，射向下风头。亚哈一马当先。

No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind that later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug.

当他树下或堤旁挖掘穴时, 一丝风都不存, 可是过后准会刮风, 而且他总是处下风头, 有遮有挡, 不必受风吹之苦。

As I passed to leeward of the galley on my way aft I was approached by the engineer we had rescued. His face was white, his lips were trembling.

我往后走到厨房背风面时，我们救出机械师来到了我身边。 他脸色苍白，嘴唇颤抖。

" Ahoy! There's the thing in question, abreast of us to leeward! "

“啊嘿！那东西就我们下风侧！”

" An hour, " said Ahab, standing rooted in his boat's stern; and he gazed beyond the whale's place, towards the dim blue spaces and wide wooing vacancies to leeward.

“都一个小时了。”亚哈说，他扎根一般站他小艇艇尾，凝视着鲸鱼消失远处，朝向下风头淡蓝色空际和广袤诱人汪洋。

But bears are slow and awkward with their eyes, and being to leeward of them they could not scent me, and I often got in a second shot before they noticed the smoke.

但是熊眼睛又慢又笨拙， 而且它们下风处， 它们无法闻到我气味， 而且我经常它们注意到烟雾之前就射了第二枪。