The rocking and splashing of the early rapids is mere fun; but when you get on, when the steamer slackens speed, and a skiff puts off from shore, and an Indian pilot comes on board, and mounts to the pilot-house, you begin to feel that matters are getting serious. But the pilot is chatting carelessly with two or three bystanders, so it cannot be much. this sudden cessation of something! This unnatural quiet. The machinery has stopped. the boat is rushing straight on to the banks. H-w-k! A whole shower of spray is dashed into our faces.英文原著 · 《Gala-Days》
Any muggins can write about Old Times on the Miss. of 500 different kinds, but I am the only man alive that can scribble about the piloting of that day--and no man ever has tried to scribble about it yet. Its newness pleases me all the time--and it is about the only new subject I know of. If I were to write fifty articles they would all be about pilots and piloting--therefore let's get the word Piloting into the heading. There's a sort of freshness about that, too. Ys ever, MARK.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 2》
Weather it, as we should have done next tack, and I should have failed in my duty to my employers. Anything but that! 'Look out!' said I. 'Pilot, she fore-reaches in stays.' Pilot was smoking; those sandhead pilots smoke in bed and asleep. He takes his cigar out of his mouth for one moment. 'Ready about,' says he. 'Hands 'bout ship. Helm's a-lee.英文原著 · 《Foul Play》
Bixby soon made some trips up the Missouri River, and in his absence turned his apprentice, or "cub," over to other pilots, such being the river custom. Young Clemens, in love with the life, and a favorite with his superiors, had a happy time until he came under a pilot named Brown. Brown was illiterate and tyrannical, and from the beginning of their association pilot and apprentice disliked each other cordially.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 1》
Of course both of us could not return to St. Louis on the same boat--no pilot could be found, and the Captain sent me to the A. Lacey, with orders to her Captain to bring me to Saint Louis. Had another pilot been found, poor Brown would have been the "lucky" man.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 1》
He went back to the river, and in September of the same year, after an apprenticeship of less than eighteen months, received his license as a St. Louis and New Orleans pilot, and was accepted by his old chief, Bixby, as full partner on an important boat. In Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain makes the period of his study from two to two and a half years, but this is merely an attempt to magnify his dullness. He was, in fact, an apt pupil and a pilot of very high class.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 1》
You don't call anyone. To re-light the pilot, Turn the valve to "Pilot," You press it down to begin the flow of gas, You wait a few seconds...美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Yeah, it's called light the broken pilot light without blowing our faces off!美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
What does it mean when one pilot says to another pilot: "What kind of equipment are you on?" They just want to know what kind of aircraft you're flying: Is it a DC-:707, Constellation?电影 · 《Catch Me If You Can (2002)》