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.

当他在树下或堤旁挖掘巢穴时, 一丝风都不存在, 可是过后准会刮风, 而且他总是处在下风头, 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.

在我往后房背风面时，我们救出机械师来了我身边。 他脸色苍白，嘴唇在颤抖。

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

在些山脉中灰熊将巢筑在背风坡厚厚积雪之下。海拔高达三千米。

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

风势见长，孤零零小艇迎风扬帆，帆桨并用，迅速向下风头逼去。

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。

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

我早晨在距离几里下方，望见了岛上高耸山峰。

Turn the ship! Turn to leeward!

转舵 转向背风！

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。

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

火发上风，无攻下风。

But soon, as if satisfied that his work for that time was done, he pushed his pleated forehead through the ocean, and trailing after him the intertangled lines, continued his leeward way at a traveller's methodic pace.

但是很快，仿佛对自番作为已经满意了，它便将打褶前额往海面一推，身后拖曳着几道缠结绳索，像个游客那样，以有条不紊步伐，继续向下风头游去。

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；一个是在很远上风头；一个在下风头，稍近些；一个在船前方；一个在船后方。

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

不要作声，法拉古舰长说，把稳舵，船迎着凤：开倒车！

" 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，他扎根一般站在他小艇艇尾，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。

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——大桨小桨都在猛划，射向下风头。亚哈一马当先。

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。

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

我上平台望见在下凤两里左右夏威夷岛，它是形成群岛七个岛中最大一个。

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

是，我能闻'n， 处于下风'。

The tunnel entrance on the leeward side stands 1,385 feet above sea level, most of an  Empire State Building, while the entrance on the windward side is 840 feet above sea level, less  of an Empire State Building.

背风侧隧道入口高出海平面 1,385 英尺，相当于帝国大厦高度， 而迎风侧入口高出海平面 840 英尺，比帝国大厦高度还要低。

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， 而且在它们下风处， 它们无法闻我气味， 而且我经常在它们注意烟雾之前就射了第二枪。