His hand still nervously grasped the tiller, and his eye was bent eagerly towards the horizon.

他的手始终紧张的抓柄，眼睛热切的盯地平线。

So he did that with the tiller under his arm and the sheet of the sail under his foot.

于是他胳肢窝挟柄，一只脚踩住了帆脚索，就这样办了。

The skiff was sailing well considering the handicaps and he steered with the tiller under his arm.

考虑到这小船的不利条件，它行驶得可算好了，他把柄挟在胳肢窝，。

He held the tiller under his arm and soaked both his hands in the water as the skiff drove forward.

他把柄夹在胳肢窝，手浸在水，小船朝前驶去。

Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted.

我的手痉挛地紧抓柄，但是在狂乱的幻想中，那柄不知怎么，好像被施了魔法，居然倒转过来。

When that storm hits, you want to have a steady hand on the tiller.

当风暴来袭，你希望有个稳稳的手握住柄。

We reefed the fore-sail and set him, and hauled aft the fore-sheet; the helm was hard a-weather.

我们收起了前帆并升起它，将前帆索拉向船尾；柄紧挨船边。

But the way they did that in 1912 was called harder starboard, because it's an overhang from sailing days when you had a tiller.

但在1912年， 他们那样做被称为“硬右转”，因为这是从帆船时代延续下来的术语， 当时使用的是柄。

Trot's sun-bronzed face was a little paler as she grasped the tiller firmly and tried to steer the boat away; but she said not a word to indicate fear.

托洛特紧紧抓住柄，试图把船开走，她被太阳晒成古铜色的脸变得有点苍白。但她一句话也没说，以表示害怕。

This way he was able to keep his steadying hand on the tiller through all 14 years of Goh's premiership, right into the early years of Zelda's son, Lee Hsien Loong's ongoing reign.

通过这种方式，他能够在吴作栋担任首相的14年，一直稳稳地把手放在柄上, 一直到李显龙接任的早期。