We had run up the trades to get the wind of the island we were after--I am not allowed to be more plain--and now we were running down for it with a bright lookout day and night.

我们赶到了贸易风①下，以便乘风抵达我们要去的岛——我不能说得更明白了——而我们现在正驶向它，由一个目力好的人日夜担任观望。

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We had run up the trades to get the wind of the island we were after - I am not allowed to be more plain - and now we were running down for it with a bright look-out day and night.

我们赶上了信风，以便乘风抵达我们要去的那个岛屿——我不能说得再清楚了。我们现在正向那座岛屿驶去，日夜有人瞭望。

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I don't want the public, and especially not the press, to get wind of it at this stage.

我不想让公众，尤其是新闻界，在这个阶段听到什么消息。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Radioactive particles travel in the wind and get absorbed into soil with the help of rain and snow.

VOA: special.2011.03.29

When the Palestinian fighters came from Jordan in the late 1960s we had more say here, and they encouraged us to get out of the wind and rain and we made houses out of concrete blocks for the first time.

BBC: Shatila stories: Muhammad Diab

We can reverse this progress, like the other side has talked about, or we can build on it. (Applause.) Now, unlike my opponent, I'm not going to let the oil companies write our energy plan. (Applause.) I'm not going to get rid of the wind energy tax credit that is helping to spur this incredibly dynamic sector of our economy.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President in Golden, CO

America has doubled the amount of electricity we get from wind over the last four years, enough power for nearly 13 million homes -- clean, renewable energy.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House