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。
However, as she rushed around preparing, she began to feel guilty about all the lies. She got rid of her guilt by telling herself she would have fun with the pizza, the party and a moonlight ride out.
她在兴奋之中为这次重大行动做好了准备,但是当她因为什么都不懂而四处乱逛的时候,她开始为撒了谎而感到内疚,不过披萨,聚会,在月光下兜风怎么样呢?
He said he knew his family was OK and expressed confidence that Chile would ride out the disaster.
上校说他知道他的家庭没事,他认为智利将安然度过这场震灾,他充满信心。
The nest should be sufficiently high to ride out occasional floods and sufficiently low to thwart foxes, snakes, and other raiders trying to penetrate from above.
这样的窝必须足够高,以躲避不时发生的洪水,又要足够的低,以防狐狸,蛇或者其他捕食者从上面发现它们。
Both hold financial assets, like corporate debt, that have incurred losses, but the nature of insurers' liabilities should allow them to ride out short-term volatility.
两者持有的公司债一类的金融资产虽都已蒙受损失,但保险公司负债的性质应当可助他们渡过短期波动。
We shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.
我们要再次证明我们能够保卫我们的岛国,使其逃离战争风暴,并能够在压迫统治下永久的生存,即使需要许多年,即使需要孤军奋战。
Indeed a lesson of recent economic history is that countries and regions that ride out a crisis well are all the more vulnerable to the next one.
事实上,近代的经济史得出的一大教训就是,走出危机的国家和地区更有可能遭受下一次危机。
The country would not have to draw down the line of credit unless it needed to; but the credit's existence would give investors confidence in its ability to ride out the storm.
获得限额的国家不是必须激活信贷额度,除非它自己需要;但授信的存在会使投资者有信心能够经受得住风暴。
But nor is it strong enough to ride out the hurricane wrecking the world's car industry without help that GM, its own survival hanging in the balance, can no longer provide.
但少了通用汽车的帮助,欧宝也没有强到可以安然度过这场席卷世界汽车工业的飓风,况且通用汽车公司还处在自身难保的阶段,也没法提供多少援助了。
They'd taken refuge under an overpass to ride out the flames.
他们在天桥下避难,从火中开车逃出来。
Lehman's latest problems stemmed from the departure of a Korean suitor, throwing into doubt its efforts to raise capital to ride out big losses on property, mortgages and leveraged loans.
雷曼最大的问题源于一个韩国起诉者的离开,后者怀疑其筹集资金以应对资产损失、抵押贷款损失和杠杆贷款损失的努力。
What's less obviously explained is how he has managed to ride out the storm over tuition fees without taking very much of the blame.
而有关他决定经受有关学费争论的风暴后,却并未承受太多指责的解释也不是太明显。
Smaller fashion companies like Versace are under the most pressure, because they lack the financial firepower and economies of scale that larger rivals are tapping to ride out Japan's economic woes.
像范思哲这样较小的时装公司是压力最大的,原因是它们缺乏较大竞争对手用以应对日本经济低迷的财务实力和规模经济。
Some even reckoned that “decoupling” might allow the region to ride out the storm that began in rich-country financial markets.
一些人甚至预测,“脱钩”或许将令该地区安然度过这次始于发达国家金融市场的风暴。
Worldwide, McDonald's low-cost food offerings continued to ride out the economic downturn, with a 4.3 per cent increase in global comparable sales.
在全球范围内,麦当劳所提供的低成本食品服务仍未受到经济低迷的冲击,全球同店销售增长4.3%。
Individuals and institutions alike use them to park cash they are waiting to deploy and to ride out market storms.
个人或机构喜欢使用货币基金来保管需要进行配置的现金,能够回避大的市场波动。
Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from North Carolina's barrier islands, but some residents hunkered down at home to ride out the storm.
数万人已经从北卡罗来纳州的一些屏障岛上撤离,但是也有一些居民选择留守在家。
Some even reckoned that "decoupling" might allow the region to ride out the storm that began in rich-country financial markets.
有的人甚至推测“脱钩效应”将使该地区安全度过源于富裕国家的金融风暴。
The idea was that PAG would broaden the company's product range and help Ford ride out the ups and downs in the mass-produced part of the car business.
当时的想法是希望pag能够扩大公司的产品范畴以使得福特能够摆脱量产车市场起伏不定的局面。
Apple however has enormous cash reserves and could almost certainly ride out any financial bad weather.
然而苹果有充足的现金可以移除任何财政坏账。
At first the Washington establishment assumed that he would ride out the storm. Barack Obama declared his undying support.
起先,华盛顿大佬还认为在这场丑文风暴中,他能全身而退:巴拉克•奥巴马发表声明表示将全力支持达施勒。
All you have to do, it turns out, is start your picks in the bottom of a bear market but close to a recovery, then ride out the next 10-year bull market, right?
你所要做的就是在熊市的底部,但是市场开始恢复的时候开始你的选股,然后搭上下一个十年牛市快车,对吧?
Some city buses were dispatched to take people without cars to the Superdome to ride out the storm.
一些城市巴士被派往没有私家车的居民那里,将他们送到Superdome体育会展中心以渡过难关。
But given today's far-from-ideal economic climate, Evans recommends having several fallback strategies to ride out the bad times and get ready for a recovery.
考虑到如今远非理想的经济状况,Evans推荐你应该为自己多留几条后路,这样才能安然度过危机,为经济复苏做好准备。
For the moment, Disney appears determined to ride out the storm.
目前看来,迪斯尼似乎决心要渡过这场风暴。
With his coffers full of oil money, and Europeans dependent on his oil, Mr Ahmadinejad is confident he can ride out any sanctions.
内贾德的金库里满是石油,鉴于欧洲人有赖于此,他自信能避免任何制裁,安然过关。
With his coffers full of oil money, and Europeans dependent on his oil, Mr Ahmadinejad is confident he can ride out any sanctions.
内贾德的金库里满是石油,鉴于欧洲人有赖于此,他自信能避免任何制裁,安然过关。
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