| 释义 |
before the wind Sailing With the wind blowing from astern: a white-hulled yacht ran before the wind...- The wind blew from the north and the ship ran swiftly before the wind.
- Wind shrieked through the rigging as the mast groaned under the strain of its huge triangular sail that drove the vessel before the wind, its rigging taught as harp strings.
- Several days out, however, a storm arose and the vessel was driven before the wind in a constant southerly direction, headed toward the South Pole.
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