And it was the custom to lash the ships together, stem to stem; so it was done now. King Harald laid his ship against King Arnvid's, and there was the sharpest fight, and many men fell on both sides. At last King Harald was raging with anger, and went forward to the fore-deck, and slew so dreadfully that all the forecastle men of Arnvid's ship were driven aft of the mast, and some fell. Thereupon Harald boarded the ship, and King Arnvid's men tried to save themselves by flight, and he himself was slain in his ship. King Audbjorn also fell; but Solve fled. So says Hornklofe: --英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
Deane and I did discourse about his ship Rupert, built by him there, which succeeds so well as he hath got great honour by it, and I some by recommending him; the King, Duke, and every body, saying it is the best ship that was ever built. And then he fell to explain to me his manner of casting the draught of water which a ship will draw beforehand: which is a secret the King and all admire in him; and he is the first that hath come to any certainty beforehand of foretelling the draught of water of a ship before she be launched英文原著 · 《The Diary of Samuel Pepys》
I had been born and brought up on the good ship Civilization. I assumed that someone else was steering the ship all right. I never knew; I never enquired." "Nor did I" said Sir Richmond, "but--" "And nobody was steering the ship," the doctor went on. "Nobody had ever steered the ship. It was adrift." "I realized that. I--" "It is a new realization. Always hitherto men have lived by faith--as children do, as the animals do. At the back of the healthy mind, human or animal, has been this persuasion: 'This is all right.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》
If the ships all moved in the one direction--westward, I mean--the world would suffer a prodigious loss--in the matter of valuable time, through the dumping overboard on the Great Meridian of such multitudes of days by ships crews and passengers. But fortunately the ships do not all sail west, half of them sail east. So there is no real loss. These latter pick up all the discarded days and add them to the world's stock again; and about as good as new, too; for of course the salt water preserves them.英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
he will be through the ship's bottom."
"But, stop a moment," said Mr. Hazel, "it is only fair you should also hear how he accounts for his proceeding."
The captain listened attentively to the explanation, and altered his tone. "Oh, that is a different matter," said he. "You need be under no alarm, sir; the thundering lubber knows what he is about, at that work. Why, he has been a ship's carpenter all his life. Him a seaman! If anything ever happens to me, and Joe Wylie is set to navigate this ship, then you may say your prayers. He isn't fit to sail a wash-tub across a duck-pond.英文原著 · 《Foul Play》
"The ship _Proserpine_ was destroyed willful. "The men had more allowance than they signed for. "The mate was always plying the captain with liquor. "Two days before ever the ship leaked, the mate got the long-boat ready. "When the _Proserpine_ sank, we was on her port quarter, aboard the cutter, was me and my messmate Tom Welch. "We saw two auger-holes in her stern, about two inches diameter. "Them two holes was made from within, for the splinters showed outside. "She was a good ship, and met with no stress of weather to speak of, on that voyage.英文原著 · 《Foul Play》
Kinda it feels like jumping ship at exactly the moment the ship is gonna sink.美剧 · 《Billions》
You better have someone captaining this ship that's legitimate, or the ship doesn't leave the dock.美剧 · 《Billions》
But to ship to China, then switch box, then ship back, it's way too much money.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
It'll be a miracle on 34th Street if we make it out of the bottom of this slave ship美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》