It can go straight downwind faster than the air that is pushing it.

它可以比推动它的空气更快地顺风直行。

Yesterday, it sent a massive ash plume, more than a mile into the sky blanketing the area downwind.

昨天，它喷发出了一股超过一英里的火山灰柱，覆盖了该地区的下风区域。

Let's dump her. And try not to stand downwind.

我们撒骨灰吧。记得别站在下风处。

So sailboats can't just go downwind faster than the wind.

所以帆船不能只是顺风走得比风快。

The bear's taking advantage of the wind, he's coming from downwind.

头熊利用风向，它从下风处过来。

It all started with a brain teaser: Can any wind-powered vehicle go directly downwind faster than the wind itself?

一切都始于一个脑筋急转弯：任何风力驱动的车辆都能比风本身更快地直接顺风行驶吗？

We'll point downwind over in this direction.

我们将顺风指向个方向。

After heavy rainfalls, these alates take to the skies, and spread their queen's genes up to a couple hundred meters downwind.

，些有翅生殖蚁飞上天空，把它们蚁的基因顺风传播几百米远。

We've only seen these things downwind from here.

我们只看见些东西从里顺风而来。

We're moving to a spot that will give us a long, straight path downwind with no obstacles.

我们正在移动到一个可以为我们提供一条顺风且没有障碍物的又长又直的路径的地方。

So that's what's propagating the spread of the fire right now, is that long-range downwind spotting of that ember cast.

就是现在火势蔓延的原因，余烬都在远距离外的下风处。

So a sailboat going directly downwind can only match the speed of the wind, never exceed it, even if there's no drag.

因此， 直接顺风航行的帆船只能与风速相匹配，而永远不能超过风速， 即使没有阻力。

Not from where I'm standing. - Then move downwind.

在我看来可不是样的。- 那就到别的地方去。

Because of her down-to-earth service, her business was downwind.

因为她实际的服务，她的生意很顺风。

Way back in 1969, Andrew Bauer build the first successful downwind cart.

早在 1969 年，Andrew Bauer 就成功制造了一辆顺风车。

Like, can it go faster than the wind downwind and upwind?

比如，它能比顺风和逆风的风走得更快吗？

877. Confirm we are being vectored to fly overhead the airport for right downwind.

877. 确认我们正被引导在机场上空右顺风飞行。

572. Request the longest runway and vectors for a wide downwind due to hydraulic failure.

572. 由于液压故障，请求最长的跑道和宽顺风矢量。

So maybe this tells us something about whether you can actually go faster than the wind, downwind.

所以也许告诉我们一些关于你是否真的可以比风、顺风走得更快的事情。

For the first video, I asked my friend and YouTube maker, Xyla Foxlin, to make a model downwind cart.

对于一个视频，我请我的朋友兼 YouTube 制作者 Xyla Foxlin 制作了一个模型顺风车。