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

他手终紧张抓着舵柄，眼睛热切盯着地平线。

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

于是他胳肢窝里挟着舵柄，一只脚踩住了帆脚索，就这样办了。

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，是在狂乱幻想中，那舵柄不知怎么，好像被施了魔法，居然倒转来。

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

他把舵柄夹在胳肢窝里，双手浸在水里，小船朝前驶去。

He took the tiller, and unmoored; the sail was set, and we were soon afloat.

他拿起舵柄， 起锚。帆已经挂好了， 我们很快就浮在了水面上。

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，被太阳晒成古铜色脸变得有点苍。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.

通这种方式，他能够在吴作栋担任首相14年里，一直稳稳地把手放在舵柄上, 一直到李显龙接任早期。

Affections for old habit, currents of self-interest, and gales of passion are the forces that keep the human ship moving; and the pressure of the judicious pilot's hand upon the tiller is a relatively insignificant energy.

对旧习惯喜爱、自利潮流和激情狂风是使人类船继续前进力量；明智飞行员手在舵柄上压力是一种相对微不足道能量。