Aurora 01

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overlook
that overlooks a dock on the bay
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przeoczyć, wychodzić na
that overlooks a dock
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z widokiem na przystań
onshore
and an onshore wind blows hard almost every afternoon
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na brzegu
blow
onshore wind blows hard almost every afternoon
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cios, podmuch
fetch
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pójść po coś i przynieść, przestrzeń
brunt
We always catch the brunt of the afternoon wind over the lake
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siła
corniche
a road cut into the edge of a cliff, especially one running along a coast
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gzyms
droga wcinająca się w krawędź klifu, zwłaszcza biegnąca wzdłuż wybrzeża
hauling
hauling the sail tight until the boat tilts
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ciągnięcie
tight
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obcisły / mocno
lakeshore
the little corniche around the curve of the lakeshore
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brzeg jeziora
to tilt
until the boat tilts
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przechylać
tiller
Freya holds the tiller most firmly, as instructed
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rumpel
firmly
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mocno
lean over
The boat leans over
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nachylać się
coming about
Freya swings the tiller hard and ducks to get under the boom as it swings over them
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nadchodzi
to duck
and Freya ducks to get under it
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uchylać się
affectionately
he calls it a tub, but affectionately
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czule
mast
a single big sail, over a mast that to Freya looks taller than the boat is long
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maszt
tack
It takes quite a few tacks to get out of the little bay
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hals
haze
where afternoon haze obscures the wall
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mgiełka
to obscure
where afternoon haze obscures the wall
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zaciemniać
deciduous
The deciduous trees on the hills
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liściaste
scarlet
autumn colors, yellow and orange and scarlet all mixed with the green of the conifers
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szkarłatny
conifers
all mixed with the green of the conifers
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drzewa iglaste
gust
which is silvery blue under the gusts
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podmuch wiatru
windward
They shift to the windward side
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nawietrzna
but off enough
not pulled as tight as you can, but off enough for the wind to curve across it the best
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ale wystarczająco dużo
paw
Look at the water there, Badim. Is that a cat’s paw?
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łapa
to heel
the boat heels hard
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noun: obcas
gurgle
hey lean back into it and the boat gurgles forward
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bulgot
tack
At the end of forty tacks
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róg halsowy; hals
to belly out
the sail bellies out ahead and to the side
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wybrzuszać się
to rock
the little tub rocks forward in jerks
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kołysać
jerks
the little tub rocks forward in jerks
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targanie
glimpse of
sometimes they catch glimpses of the lake’s bottom
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rzut oka na; przebłysk
awkwardly
the boat rocks awkwardly
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niezgrabnie
all in all
all in all it feels like they’re laboring
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ogólnie rzecz biorąc / ostatecznie
lean out
“Uh-oh,” Badim says as he leans out to see past their bellying sail.
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wychylać się
swing back
I wonder if I can swing back out and get on the other beam
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powracać
beam
I can swing back out and get on the other beam
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szerokość kadłuba
to head at
And then they’re heading right at the corner of the dock
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udać się do
to cant
the boat cants and swings around the dock
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przechylać się
swing around
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huśtać się
to scramble
Badim scrambles to his feet
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wspinać się

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