For ships had to negotiate a long spit of land easily crossed on foot.

而这个岬角人们也可以步行横越的。

Light a fire on the headland, signal for help?

在岬角上生火，向外呼救？

It was the island of Tintagel, a harsh rocky headland entirely unsuitable for building on.

这是廷塔格尔岛，一个完全不适合建筑的粗糙岩石岬角。

So, I take a rowboat from the harbor and row about 20 minutes around a little headland into the cove where my studio is.

所以，从港口乘划艇，绕着一个岬角划了大约20分钟，来工作室所在的海湾。

And its little bays and headlands were beginning to look flatter, and the boat was rising and falling in the gentle swell.

岛上的凹进去的海湾和凸出的岬角看起来变平了，船随着海浪上下颠簸着。

And as they came round each promontory the children expected to find the place where the two joined.

每走过一个岬角，孩子们就期待着看两岸交会的地点。

I'm looking across the Golden Gate Park and the Golden Gate to the Marin Headlands.

正望着金门园和金门，看向马林岬角。

We know this ship has rounded the headland and turned into the fjord.

们知道这艘船已经绕过岬角，驶入了峡湾。

On the northeastern tip of the mountain, a rock promontory emerges.

在山的东北角，一块岩石岬角突显出来。

The lighthouse  also marks the southernmost tip of the Portofino Promontory.

灯塔同时标志着波托菲诺岬角的南端。

The two fleets met at a headland called Echnomis.

两支舰队在一处名为埃克诺米斯的岬角相遇。

Sometimes they made islands or great mountains enclosing lakes of deep turquoise-blue, or liquid amber, or chrysoprase-green; sometimes dark headlands jutted into strange, lost seas; sometimes slender strips of wonderful lands joined other wonderful lands together.

有时它们形成岛屿或巨大的山脉，环绕着深蓝绿松石色、液体琥珀色或翠绿色的湖泊；有时黑暗的岬角伸入奇怪的、迷失的海洋；有时细长的土地条带将一片片奇妙的土地连接在一起。

To avoid observation, it was necessary to hug the beach until I had gained cover from the higher sand-hills on the little headland, when I might strike across, through the hollows, for the margin of the wood.

为了避免被观察，须紧贴海滩，直从岬角上较高的沙丘上获得掩护，那时可能会穿过山谷，进入树林的边缘。

To the north stretched the limpid, and, as it appeared from that dizzy height, the narrow sheet of the " holy lake, " indented with numberless bays, embellished by fantastic headlands, and dotted with countless islands.

清澈的湖水向北伸展开来，从那令人目眩的高度望去，“圣湖”的狭长薄片上镶嵌着无数的海湾，点缀着奇异的岬角，点缀着无数的岛屿。

The place where they embarked was a little bight or circular bay, and the boat cut across a much larger bay toward a distant headland where the caves were located, right at the water's edge.

他们上船的地方是一个海湾或圆形海湾， 船穿过一个更大的海湾， 驶向远处的岬角， 洞穴就在水边。

About 20 miles off the coast here, this little cove is a rocky outcrop that is claimed by both the United States and Canada, the one territorial dispute between these two neighboring countries.

距此海岸约20英里处， 这片海湾是一块岩石岬角， 被美国和加拿大双方宣称拥有主权，成为这两个邻国间唯一的领土争议。

The ploughman left his horses at the headland, and one jumped over the fence, and pulled the other into the ditch, plough and all; but he ran on, and gave chase to Tom.

农夫把他的马留在岬角上，一匹跳过篱笆，把另一匹拉沟里，犁地。但他继续跑，追上了汤姆。

Descending the eastern slopes of the Coast Range through beds of gilias and lupines, and around many a breezy hillock and bush-crowned headland, I at length waded out into the midst of it.

沿着海岸山脉的东坡向下，穿过石莲花和羽扇豆的床，绕过许多微风习习的山丘和灌木丛生的岬角，终于涉水进入了它的中间。

And it was my favourite sort of walks where you're in nature but also there's plenty of history and plenty of promontory hill forts to look at, that kind of thing.

这是最喜欢的徒步类型， 身处自然之中， 同时又充满了历史遗迹和众多可观赏的岬角山堡，诸如此类。

Of course, cape barren geese prefer freshwater and after their goslings fledge they'll come to areas with plenty of food and delicious fresh water, such as Phillip Island.

当然，岬角雁更喜欢淡水，当它们的雏鹅羽翼丰满后，它们就会来有充足食物和美味淡水的地区，例如菲利普岛。