In “Oscar and Lucinda” (which won the Booker prize in 1988) he follows an extraordinary glass and iron church downriver to its final destination; the art of forgery pervades “Parrot and Olivier in America”.

《奥斯卡于露辛达》（荣获1988年布克奖）一书中，他描写了一座由玻璃和铁制成教堂构想，并且让这个构想随着主人公旅程顺水而下，直到它目地，直到故事最终；同样，《奥利维尔与鹦鹉》（“Parrot and Olivier in America ”暂无官方译名）中，他又痴情于仿品工艺，贯穿始终。

There is also an abundant reality of things going right at any given time.

还有另一种饱满丰富现实是，任意某一时刻，事情顺风顺水。

And I've actually found that doing this can increase my motivation and make me feel like I'm kind of on a roll in the days that come afterward.

事实上，我发现这样做可以增加我动力，让我感觉自己接下来日子里顺风顺水。

At an even more basic level, mastering human psychology will keep your life running smoothly.

更简单层面来讲，掌握人类心理会让你生活顺风顺水。

Just for once, everything was going right for Vincent van Gogh.

仅此一次，文森特·梵高顺风顺水。

We've had such a great thing going on here.

咱家现顺风顺水。

Now it was a straight course before the wind.

现是顺风顺水了。

Yeah, let's talk about the expression to have the wind at your back.

好吧，我们来谈谈“顺风顺水”这个表达。

Summer arrived, and dogs and men packed on their backs, rafted across blue mountain lakes, and descended or ascended unknown rivers in slender boats whipsawed from the standing forest.

夏天来了, 狗和人打起背包, 乘木伐渡过山中一汪汪蓝色湖泊, 锯下森林中大树做成舟, 沿着不知名河流顺水而下或逆流而上。

He luffs up before the doubloon; halloa, and goes round on the other side of the mast; why, there's a horse-shoe nailed on that side; and now he's back again; what does that mean?

他顺风顺水地到了金币前面；啊哈，他又绕到桅杆后面去了；嗯，那一面钉着一个马掌钉；现他又绕回来了；那是什么意思？

You-You walked in, and you asked if there was a break-in, and I-I was embarrassed and possibly concussed, so I just -- I went with it.

你进门就问我是不是有人闯进来了，我当时很窘迫，还可能脑震荡了，所以我就顺水推舟。

This is exactly what Olympic organizers had feared might happen, after all has been a relatively peaceful and sometimes spectacular torch relay around Brazil.

一直以来，巴西奥运火炬传递顺风顺水，甚至某些环节堪称精彩。但让奥组委担心一幕还是发生了。

His mating strategy is to gently touch flanks of the female as a way of asking if she wants to do what comes naturally.

他交配策略是温柔地抚摸雌性侧翼，以询问她是否想做顺水推舟事情。

They had the wind at their backs, for sure, but to use one of Tony Fadell's favorite expressions, they remembered to “stay beginners.”

毫无疑问，他们是顺风顺水，但用托尼法德尔最喜欢一句话来，他们记得要“保持初者状态”。

But if everything is smooth sailing, then nobody cares, which is why we need to add conflict before getting to our answer.

但如果一切顺风顺水，就没有人会关心了，这就是我们揭晓答案前需要加入冲突原因。

Because if everything was fine and dandy all the time, It would be boring and we wouldn't have meaning out of that.

因为如果一切总是顺风顺水，那将会变得乏味， 我们也无法从中获得意义。

Your life is so pathetic. -Yeah. I mean, I'm the screwed-up one. Matt's got it so easy. He's the golden boy.

你人生可真悲惨。-是啊。我是，我是一团糟。Matt却顺风顺水。天之骄子似。

They scored three goals in the first half and from then on United were coasting.

【coast】他们上半场进了三个球，此后联队就踢得顺风顺水了。

" Uh, okay, Dani, " Valentina said. " Like you had it all together when you were a freshman."

“哦，没事，丹妮。”瓦伦蒂娜道，“就好像你高一时候就顺风顺水一样。”

I was trying to figure her out. I was playing along, I let her get to me.

我想弄清楚她要干什么。所以我就顺水推舟，让她得手。