It's a problem the engineer first became aware of during a yachting race across the Atlantic.

这位工程师是在一次横渡大西洋的游艇比赛中一次意识到这个问题的。

None of the other steamers were able to serve his projects.

实际上，所有直接往欧美两洲的轮船，不论是法国横渡大西洋公司的客船，白星线的客船，伊曼公司的轮船，或者汉堡线轮船以及其他客货轮船，现在都不能帮助福克先生按时完成他的旅行计划。

His granduncle, Stephen Vail, had built the engines for the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.

他的叔祖父斯蒂芬·韦尔 (Stephen Vail) 为一艘横渡大西洋的轮船制造了发动机。

She rode as a passenger and became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air in 1928.

1928 年， 她作为一名乘客乘坐飞机， 成为一位乘飞​​机横渡大西洋的女性。

Every transatlantic steamship company offered Verne large sums of money if he would place Phileas Fogg aboard one of their ships.

每家横渡大西洋的轮船公司都许诺给凡尔纳一大笔钱，只要他让菲力斯·福格搭乘他们公司的任何一艘船。

While they were crossing the Atlantic, many people died, and after they landed, their first winter was worse than any English winter.

当他们横渡大西洋的时候，很多人都死了。他们登陆之后，在这里度过的一个冬天比英国的任何一个冬天都要糟糕。

Well, in 1985, Richard Branson made international news when he tried to set a world record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic.

1985 年，理查德·布兰森试图创造最快横渡大西洋的世界纪录，成为国际新闻。

In fact, finding a new source of peppercorns was one of the reasons the Spanish monarchy bankrolled Christopher Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic.

事实上，寻找新的花椒源是西班牙君主制资助克里斯托弗·哥伦布横渡大西洋的原因之一。

The boy told the public about his life in Africa and about the conditions on the slave ship that brought him across the Atlantic Ocean.

这个男孩向公众讲述了他在非洲的生活， 以及在带他横渡大西洋的奴隶船上的情况。

In 1986, he attempted the Atlantic crossing again, but this time, he succeed in spectacular fashion — he broke the world record for the crossing by over two hours.

1986 年，他再次尝试横渡大西洋，但这次他以惊人的方式成功了——他以两个小时打破了横渡大西洋的世界纪录。

The sea was not very unpropitious, the wind seemed stationary in the north–east, the sails were hoisted, and the Henrietta ploughed across the waves like a real trans–Atlantic steamer.

海上风浪不大，一直是刮着西南风，亨利埃塔号张起群帆，有了前后樯两张大帆推动，它走得简直跟一艘横渡大西洋的客船一模一样。