Is it uncommon for the best ocean steamers to be two or three days behind time?

在横渡大洋的航线上，即使那些最好的客船迟到两三天也不算什么稀罕事！

They were revolutionary, troubling all the old conventions and values, as the screws of ocean steamers must trouble a school of herring.

它们是革命性的， 扰乱了所有旧的习俗和价值观， 就像远洋轮船的螺丝必须扰乱一群鲱鱼一样。

At last, on February 3, he drove, after a fashion, down the Irish Channel, on board the Teutonic. He had not crossed the Atlantic for a dozen years, and had never seen an ocean steamer of the new type.

终于，在 2 月 3 日，他驾驶着条顿人号驶过爱尔兰海峡。他已经有十几年没有横渡大西洋了，也从未见过新型远洋轮船。