Cape Good Hope的意思|示意

Some shipping companies are reportedly going the long way around Africa, via the Cape of Good Hope, to avoid piracy in the Gulf of Aden, near Somalia.

据报道有些船运公司走绕过非洲好望角的长线，以避免靠近索马里的亚丁湾。

The freighter rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed into the Atlantic.

货轮绕过好望角，驶入大西洋。

But in Europe it is believed that the first person to use the Cape of Good Hope as a sea route was Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, when he sailed from Europe to the East in 1497.

但是在欧洲人们认为第一个使用好望角，把其作为航海路线的人是葡萄牙探险家瓦斯科·达伽马。他是在1497年从欧洲开始航行到美国的东部地区。

Towards the end of last year, the situation became so bad that Maersk, the world's largest shipping company, announced that its oil tankers would be rerouted via the Cape of Good Hope.

到了上年底，情况已经糟糕到令马士基（Maersk）这个全球最大的轮船公司宣布：它的油轮会绕行好望角。

1488 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.

1488年的今天，葡萄牙航海家巴尔托洛梅乌·迪亚士绕过好望角后到达莫塞尔港，他成为第一个绕过好望角的欧洲航海家。

Crazy pirates who caused an international shipping costs, especially soaring insurance costs, many owners in order to prevent attacks by pirates, can only pass the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.

海盗们疯狂的行动造成国际航运成本，特别是保险费用的狂涨，很多船东为了防止遭海盗袭击，只能绕道南非好望角。