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，他能够吴作栋担任首相14年里，一直稳稳地把手放舵柄上, 一直到李显龙接任早期。

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

他手始终紧张抓着舵柄，眼睛热切盯着地平线。

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

我双手痉挛地紧抓着舵柄，想中，那舵柄不知怎么，好像被施了魔法，居然倒转过来。

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

于他胳肢窝里挟着舵柄，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.

考虑到这小船不利条件，它行驶得可算好了，他把舵柄挟胳肢窝里，掌着舵。

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

当风暴来袭，你希望有个稳稳手掌握住舵柄。

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.

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

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.

1912年， 他们那样做被称为“硬右转”，因为这从帆船时代延续下来术语， 当时使用舵柄。

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；舵柄紧挨着船边。