While lying at anchor, a lighter approached us from the town, bringing four more slaves.

抛锚时，一艘打火机从镇上驶来，带来了另外四名奴隶。

" At a little sea-side nook, where my yacht lies at anchor, " he said tentatively.

“在海边的一个小角落， 我的游艇停泊的地方， ” 他试探性地说。

She painted landscape like the landscape painter, abstractions like the cubist, and with the help of picture postcards sailing-boats lying at anchor like the Scandinavian.

她像风景画家一样画风景， 像立体派那样画抽象， 借助明信片画像斯堪的纳维亚人那样停泊的帆船。

" We cannot afford to drift or lie at anchor." The scale of Mr Gabler's biography invites comparison to Robert Caro's volumes on Lyndon Johnson, another giant of the Senate.

“我们不能漂流或停泊。”加布勒先生传记的篇幅可以与罗伯特·卡罗关于参议院另一位巨人林登·约翰逊的著作相提并论。