"But the treaty! The treaty! The open navigation of the Mississippi!" she cried impatiently. "The last news is that the treaty will certainly be concluded and the open navigation of the Mississippi assured to us forever. The major will load his flatboats, drift down to New Orleans, sell those Spanish fops his tobacco for its weight in gems, buy a mustang to ride home on, and if not robbed and murdered by the land-pirates on the way, come back to you like an enormous bumblebee from a clover-field, his thighs literally packed with gold."英文原著 · 《The Choir Invisible》
William A. Bates, "American Marine: The Shipping Question in History and Politics" (1892); "American Navigation: The Political History of Its Rise and Ruin" (1902). These works are statistical and highly technical, partly compiled from governmental reports, and are also frankly controversial. Henry Hall, "American Navigation, With Some Account of the Causes of Its Former Prosperity and Present Decline" (1878). Charles S. Hill, "History of American Shipping: Its Prestige, Decline, and Prospect" (1883). Kelley, "The Question of Ships: The Navy and the Merchant Marine" (1884). Arthur J.英文原著 · 《The Old Merchant Marine》
I know that he was a studious man, fond of what was called "solid reading." He delighted in problems of navigation (he was for many years the master of a merchant-vessel sailing to various European ports), in astronomical calculations and historical computations. A rhyming genius in the town, who undertook to hit off the peculiarities of well-known residents, characterized my father as英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
She was quite sure of her father's permission, for she never had been thwarted in any of her whims. And it mattered little to her whether Yann were rich or not. To begin with, a sailor like him would need but a little money in advance to attend the classes of the coast navigation school, and might shortly become a captain whom all shipowners would gladly intrust with their vessels. It also mattered little to her that he was such a giant; great strength may become a defect in a woman, but in a man is not prejudicial to good looks.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
"'O ja, your Majesty. Here lies the Kemmensee [Kemmen-lake]: if that were drained out, your Majesty would gain some 1,800 acres [MORGEN, three-fifths English acre] of pasture-land, where colonists could be settled; and then the whole country would have navigation too, which would help the village of Fehrbellin and the town of Ruppin to an uncommon degree.'英文原著 · 《Appendix to History of Friedrich II of Prussia》
[Various particulars of the prolonged and perplexed navigation ensuing here follow, with incidents of a calamitous calm, from which portion one passage is extracted, to wit:]英文原著 · 《BENITO CERENO》
Guidance and navigation each time, no corrections found.美剧 · 《Billions》
Navigation data for self-driving cars, mobile medical imagery, all transmitting with no quality loss.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
Preliminary trial of the infinite persistence Gyroscopic navigational system: phase one commencing.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
And land navigation, where you’re finding your way out in the mountains. and land navigation, where you’re finding your way out in the mountains.演讲 · 《Deaf in the military ~ Keith Nolan》