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第三人称单数:gybes
现在分词:gybing
过去式:gybed
过去分词:gybed
verb
intransitive verb
to shift suddenly and forcibly from one side to the other—used of a fore-and-aft sail or its boomthe cutter had lost all four foremost men by the violent jibing of a boom—Herman Melville
was the most amazed when he saw me work the boat to and again in the sea by the rudder, and how the sail jibed, and filled this way or that way as the course we sailed changed—Daniel Defoe
to change a vessel's course when sailing with the wind so that as the stern passes through the eye of the wind the boom swings to the opposite side
transitive verb
to cause (a sail or vessel) to jibe
this maneuver was bound to force her to jibe her mainsail from one side to the other—Jack London
"摇摆,从一边到另一边",航海用语,1690年代,可能源自荷兰语 gijben,与德语 gieben 有关,起源不确定。
移帆转向
late 17th cent.: from obsolete Dutch gijben
gybe
1 "So much the better, s'long as you don't gybe her," rejoined the Acting Chief.
2 “It looked good initially out of the gybe and it looked good most of the way across,” Ainslee said.
3 You’ll see tacking and gybing duels from the America’s Cup of yore that have kind of gone away.
4 Hutchinson said the team has tacked and gybed through three or four laps without touching down.
5 While I was standing at the taffrail in admiration of this wonderful resource of nature, the main boom gybed and struck me with such force, that I was thrown into the sea.
6 She saw it, too, strike Gladys on the head–and the next moment the Defiance gybed helplessly, while Gladys was swept overboard.
7 In a heavy gale, Provident of Brixham risks her mast and gear, gybing to close the sinking pinnace of the torpedoed Formidable, and rescue the exhausted seventy-one men who crowded her.
8 The variation, trifling as it was, brought the wind on the opposite quarter, and caused the boom that distended her mainsail to gybe.
9 First Team New Zealand dropped off its foils after gybing in Luna Rossa’s wind shadow and the Italian team sailed away to a massive advantage.
10 A nautical entertainment had been fixed for 6 p.m.; but unfortunately that hour was selected to gybe the ship, so that it was 6.30 before261 the entertainment commenced.
11 Wildly excited, Tim forgot that he was steering and, putting the helm down, allowed the smack to gybe "all standing".
12 The skipper had gybed the boat under the lee of Valcour's; but the wind was too fresh where he was now to repeat the manœuvre.
13 When our mainsheet parted the boom gybed so hard that it opened a seam.
14 It gybed back to the left and then, almost laying mark came back on port and just squeezed across Luna Rossa’s bow.
15 But it added that, though her log may show she has travelled 23,000 nautical miles, as claimed by her PR team, this includes "tacking and gybing", and not the straight line distances required.
16 Mostyn, intent upon preventing the boat from gybing, had no opportunity of seeing the result of the shot.
17 Ainslie responds with words of encouragement when the crew pull off a tricky "gybe" maneuver really well.
18 But the thread is cut between us and we will never gybe again, no, never—worlds without end.
19 A foiling gybe is when a boat changes direction while sailing downwind and stays on the foils, without the hulls touching the water.
20 New Zealand gained on the first downwind but Luna Rossa’s error came when it was slow to get a board down gybing near the mark and lost speed.
1 改变方向
2 使改变方向