They could sail out for days into the unknown and assess the area, secure in the knowledge that if they didn't find anything, they could turn about and catch a swift ride back on the trade winds.

他们可以在未知的海域航行数天，并对该地区进行评估。他们知道如果没有发现任何东西的话，他们可以掉头，并借着信风迅速返回。

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This reptile, with its iconic sail-shaped back, is often mistakenly identified as a dinosaur, and is even included in packages of toy dinosaurs.

这种古老的爬行动物背上有着标志性的船帆状背鳍，它常常会被误认为是一种恐龙，甚至出现在恐龙玩具中。

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The halyard typically rises from the head of the sail to a block at the head of the mast and back down to deck level, from where it is pulled up to raise the sail.

升降索通常从帆的前侧延伸到桅杆顶端，然后下降到甲板平面，在甲板上拉起升降索就能升起船帆。

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Likewise, Carol Delaney, a cultural anthropologist at Stanford University, concludes that Columbus was a deeply religious man whose purpose was to sail to Asia to obtain gold in order to finance a crusade to take back Jerusalem and rebuild the Jews' holy Temple.

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The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.

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