The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
两艘船停在波涛汹涌的海面上, 我相信它们是海洋幻影。
人类:我们所有人的故事
If you're sitting becalmed in an ocean gyre, it feels like you're a painted ship on a painted ocean, nothing's happening.
如果你静静坐在海洋环流之中,感觉就像身在画中静止不动 相安无事。
冰与火之歌:群鸦的盛宴(中英对照)
" Would that you did, " the Red Oarsman said. " You would sail wherever you liked and never be becalmed" .
" 若是您能就好了," " 红桨手" 道," 想去哪里就去哪里,永不停航。"
一先令蜡烛(上)
The Press, becalmed in the doldrums of the silly season, leaped to movement at so unhoped-for a wind.
在这个愚蠢的季节的低迷中平静下来的新闻界,在如此出乎意料的风中跃升为运动。
为奴十二年
When in sight of the Bahama Banks, at a place called Old Point Compass, or the Hole in the Wall, we were becalmed three days.
当看到巴哈马银行时,在一个叫做 Old Point Compass 或墙上的洞的地方, 我们平静了三天。
百年孤独
She was becalmed in a magnificent adolescence, more and more impenetrable to formality, more and more indifferent to malice and suspicion, happy in her own world of simplerealities.