| 单词 | rhumb |
| 例句 | The wind held long enough for the boats to slip through, and a half-hour later we were sailing a rhumb line for the beach. On a Bahamas Sail, 8 Friends Get a Taste of Robinson Crusoe 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z They are known for distinctive rhumb lines that radiate out from various points in the ocean in the direction of wind or compass points to help navigators plot their course. A $7.5-million find: Overlooked Getty estate sale map turns out to be 14th century treasure 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z To ensure that every cartouche, sea monster and rhumb line remains vibrant, the men keep the Venetian blinds in their south-facing apartment drawn, as if for a permanent siesta. Collections: A New World Around Every Corner 2014-01-23T01:01:04Z The general name by which the north, east, south, and west rhumbs of the horizon are distinguished. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. On looking at our binnacle, they pointed to the north-west rhumb, and made us easily understand that it was the course they always steered on their return to Macassar. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 The latitude reduced by the reckoning on the rhumbs of wind at the meridian observation, appeared to me to be 19 degrees 40 minutes 50 seconds. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 De Barros adds, that he shewed De Gama a very small chart of the coast of India, laid down with meridians and parallels, but without rhumbs of the winds. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time A term when a look-out man announces a rhumb or bearing of any object in this quarter. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. |
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