Steamships captured the North Atlantic passenger business from sail in the 1840s because of their much greater speed.

19世纪40年代，蒸汽船凭借其更快的速度从帆船手中夺取了北大西洋的客运业务。

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We can never promise to sail anywhere in particular, because the weather might militate against it.

天有不测风云，所以我们永远都不会保证具体航行到哪个地方。

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I do remember walking on the college grounds and watching sail boats in the distance on the blue waters of Lake Michigan.

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Some of the biggest boats to ever sail the lakes have been lost in sudden November storms.

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When riots broke out in Havana, he ordered the battleship Maine to sail there.

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Manufactured in the sail loft at Chatham in 1803, the sail remained on HMS Victory until the ship returned for repairs after the Battle of Trafalgar in1806.

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She herself moved through the gardens like a ship in full sail, dressed in her favourite purple or sea-green gowns.

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It was many years later discovered in a sail loft at Victory barracks, now HMS Nelson, in 1960, covered by gym mats.

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