Translation examples
The navigator, working behind the pelorus—a kind of dummy compass—took a bearing off the light and then worked furiously with his charts.
El piloto, trabajando detrás del taxímetro, una especie de brújula horizontal, reorientó la luz y se puso a trabajar frenéticamente con las cartas.
The captain stepped over to the pelorus and took his own heading. “Bloody hell,” he said, raising his spyglass again, peering ferociously into the lashing storm, but now nothing was visible—not even the light.
El capitán se acercó al taxímetro y lo comprobó él mismo. —Maldita sea —dijo alzando el catalejo y oteando con rabia a través de la tormenta; pero no podía ver nada, ni siquiera la luz.
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