There were delays in the post because the owls kept being blown off course.

猫头鹰们不能及时把信送来，因为狂风总是吹得它们偏离目标。

Biarni was hoping to join his father who was with Eric, but he was blown off course and found himself in an unknown land, from where he eventually reached Greenland.

比阿尼希望与跟随埃里克的父亲在一起。但是他掉队了，并发现自己在一个不知名的岛上，从那之后，他最终到达了格陵兰岛。

Equally unlikely, says Roger Lederer, an ornithologist emeritus at California State University, Chico, is that the bird climbed eight or more kilometers into the sky and was blown off course by the jet stream.

加州州立大学奇科分校的退休鸟类学家罗杰·莱德尔（音译）说，同样不可能的是，这种鸟能飞上八公里或更高的天空，且被急流吹离航线。