We have with us tonight that most daring of all blockade-runners,whose fleet schooners,slipping past

题目

We have with us tonight that most daring of all blockade-runners,whose fleet schooners,slipping past the Yankee guns,have brought us here the very woolens and laces we wear tonight..I refer,ladies and gentlemen,to that will-o-the-wisp of the bounding main,none other than our friend from Charleston,Captain Rhett Butler!
blockade-runners和fleet schooners是什么意思呢?

答案

blockade-runners指偷越封锁线的船或人,作战时用于突破港口封锁运送物资的船或人,这里应该是指人 因为下文有whose……fleet（舰队） schooners（纵帆船）合在一起可以是帆船队吧 一楼的或许也对 大致意思是说船队突...