It can go straight downwind faster than the air that is pushing it.

它可以比推动它的气更快地顺直行。

Yesterday, it sent a massive ash plume, more than a mile into the sky blanketing the area downwind.

昨，它喷发出了一股超过一英里的火山灰柱，覆盖了该地的下。

Let's dump her. And try not to stand downwind.

我们撒骨灰吧。记得别站在下处。

So sailboats can't just go downwind faster than the wind.

所以帆船不能只是顺走得比快。

The bear's taking advantage of the wind, he's coming from downwind.

头熊利用向，它从下处过来。

It all started with a brain teaser: Can any wind-powered vehicle go directly downwind faster than the wind itself?

一切都始于一个脑筋急转弯：任何力驱动的车辆都能比本身更快地直接顺行驶吗？

We'll point downwind over in this direction.

我们将顺指向个方向。

After heavy rainfalls, these alates take to the skies, and spread their queen's genes up to a couple hundred meters downwind.

大雨后，些有翅生殖蚁飞，把它们蚁后的基因顺传播几百米远。

We've only seen these things downwind from here.

我们只看见些东西从里顺而来。

We're moving to a spot that will give us a long, straight path downwind with no obstacles.

我们正在移动到一个可以为我们提供一条顺且没有障碍物的又长又直的路径的地方。

So that's what's propagating the spread of the fire right now, is that long-range downwind spotting of that ember cast.

就是现在火势蔓延的原因，余烬都在远距离外的下处。

So a sailboat going directly downwind can only match the speed of the wind, never exceed it, even if there's no drag.

因此， 直接顺航行的帆船只能与速相匹配，而永远不能超过速， 即使没有阻力。

Not from where I'm standing. - Then move downwind.

在我看来可不是样的。- 那就到别的地方去。

Because of her down-to-earth service, her business was downwind.

因为她实际的服务，她的生意很顺。

Way back in 1969, Andrew Bauer build the first successful downwind cart.

早在 1969 年，Andrew Bauer 就成功制造了第一辆顺车。

Like, can it go faster than the wind downwind and upwind?

比如，它能比顺和逆的走得更快吗？

877. Confirm we are being vectored to fly overhead the airport for right downwind.

877. 确认我们正被引导在机场右顺飞行。

572. Request the longest runway and vectors for a wide downwind due to hydraulic failure.

572. 由于液压故障，请求最长的跑道和宽顺矢量。

So maybe this tells us something about whether you can actually go faster than the wind, downwind.

所以也许告诉我们一些关于你是否真的可以比、顺走得更快的事情。

For the first video, I asked my friend and YouTube maker, Xyla Foxlin, to make a model downwind cart.

对于第一个视频，我请我的朋友兼 YouTube 制作者 Xyla Foxlin 制作了一个模型顺车。