But he crowded the current a little so that he was still fishing correctly though faster than he would have fished if he was not trying to use the bird.

不过他还是挨近了一点儿海流，这样，他依然在用正确的方式捕，他的速度要比他不打算利用鸟儿来指路时来得快。

This is an analogy that relates to sailing or boating where if you put an anchor down even if the wind changes or the current changes and you get drifting around, you don't lose that position, right?

这是一个与航行或划船有关的类比，在这种情况下，即使遇到了风变或海流变化，只要你锚定了，即使到处漂流，也不会失去方向，对吗？

Over thousands and thousands of years, the paths of rivers sweep up and down the coast, dropping off piles of sand to be spread by waves and currents into smooth sandy beaches.

千百年来，河流的路径在海岸上扫荡，落下一堆沙子，被海浪和海流铺成光滑的沙滩。

" And now we are no longer travelling toward Japan, " I answered. " Our drift is to the south-east, or south-south-east, at the rate of at least two miles an hour" .

" 现在我就不再是往日本走了，" 我回答，" 我的海流是向西南，或是南南东，速度至少每小时两英里。"

Once it finds a suitable gap, it'll place the egg inside, and the corkscrew-like shape helps hold it in place, so the ocean current doesn't wash it away.

一旦找到合适的沟缝，雌鲨便会将卵置于当中，而如同螺旋开瓶器一般的卵会卡在上面，从而避免了被海流冲走。

The debris drifted in the currents round to the south side of the island and was gradually deposited under the water line for a stretch of over 10 kilometers.

碎石被海流搬运到岛屿的南侧延绵水下十几公里逐渐沉积。

Meteorologists are divided over how soon the ocean currents will change to El Nino and how this will affect U.S. weather.

气象学家对海流何时会转变为厄尔尼诺现象以及这将如何影响美国天气存在。

But the powerful currents and tangling seaweed of the Sargasso Sea have made this theory difficult to confirm.

但马尾藻海强大的海流和缠结在一起的海藻使得这个理论难以被证实。

I wish he would turn with the current.

但愿它会随着海流拐弯。

But once you're in the open sea with powerful currents bombarding you and very little light.

但一旦你来到公海上，强大的海流轰击你，光线很弱，这个方法就不奏效了。

Below their hulls, Mobula rays went soaring through the very currents that bore their ships along.

在他的船下，蝠鲼在承载船体的海流中穿梭遨游。

The current will have set us far to the eastward, he thought.

海流会把我远远地向东方送去，他想。

Others let them drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fishermen thought they were at a hundred.

别的渔夫让钓索随着海流漂去，有时候钓索在六十英寻的深处，他却自以为在一百英寻的深处呢。

Before it was really light he had his baits out and was drifting with the current.

不等天色大亮，他就放出了一个个饵，让船随着海流漂去。

They were moving more slowly now and the glow of Havana was not so strong, so that he knew the current must be carrying them to the eastward.

和船此刻行动放慢了，哈瓦那的灯火也不大辉煌，他于是明白，海流准是在把他方带向东方。

He was letting the current do a third of the work and as it started to be light he saw he was already further out than he had hoped to be at this hour.

他正让海流帮他干三之一的活儿，这时天渐渐亮了，他发现自己已经划到比预期此刻能达到的地方更远了。

Squinting against the salty spray, he tries to study the currents.

他眯着眼，迎着咸咸的水花，试图研究海流。

Being pushed around aimlessly by sea currents and wind.

被海流和风随意地推来推去。

Depending on local  winds and currents, it moves and changes shape from season to season.

受当地风向和海流的影响，这片奇特的地貌随季节更迭而移动，形态亦随之变化。

Which sounds a bit counterintuitive, but joking apart, Dan, they had just come from a very warm part of the sea called the Gulf Stream into a freezing part of the sea called the Labrador Current.

这听起来有点违背直觉，但说笑归说笑， 丹， 他刚从一个叫做墨西哥湾流的温暖海域来到了一个叫做拉布拉多海流的冰冷海域。