During the Age of Exploration, spirits played a crucial role in long distance sea voyages.

在大航海时代，烈酒在长途航海中有着重要的作用。

So accurately does Melville depict the whaling scenes and sea voyages that the reader is taken on an exhilarating ride.

梅尔维尔对捕鲸情形和航海的描写是如此精确，读者彷佛踏上一段刺激的海上之旅。

I have no choice but to assume the worst, given Leonard's lengthy sea voyage and her famously ravenous nether regions.

我只能往最坏了猜，毕竟莱纳德长期远航，而她又是出了名的饥渴。

" What you really want is a sea voyage" .

“你真正想要的是一次海上航行”。

But, look here, a sea voyage you shall have.

但是，看这里，你将有一次海上航行。

There were smaller versions for fishing and local excursions, and larger adaptations for open sea voyages capable of carrying tens of tons of cargo.

有用于钓鱼和本地短途旅行的型号小一点的船只，也有用于海上航行的大型号船，可以装载数十吨货物。

Their sea voyage took twenty-six months—more than two years.

他们的海上航行花了二十六个月——两年多。

Nearly eight thousand miles were cut off the sea voyage from New York to San Francisco.

从纽约到旧金山的海上航行将近八千英里被切断。

That's why they were taken on long sea voyages – but they weren't like the biscuits we eat now – they were plain, simple and very hard baked.

这就是为什么人们会在远洋航行中带上它们——但它们不像我们现在吃的饼干——它们朴实无华，烤得很硬。

The great barrier in the way of the poor who wanted to go to America was the cost of the sea voyage.

想去美国的穷人的最大障碍是海上航行的费用。

" Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable" .

“好吧，爱情不是一个好水手， 它会在海上航行中衰弱。当你和拉里之间隔着大西洋时， 你会惊讶地发现， 在你航行之前， 痛苦是多么轻微， 似乎无法忍受” 。

A wave-motion, on the contrary, could quite well be described to a blind man, since he can acquire a knowledge of space by the sense of touch; and he can experience a wave-motion by a sea voyage almost as well as we can.

我们都知道这一点， 尽管我们无法描述它以将我们的知识传达给盲人。 相反，波浪运动完全可以向盲人描述， 因为他可以通过触觉获得空间知识； 他几乎可以像我们一样体验海上航行的波浪运动。