But everywhere men feel a compulsion to pit their strength against the sea, to explore it and wander about on it, to use it for own ends and wrest its wealth from it.

• 但是各地的人们都感受到一种与大海抗争，去探索大海，漫游大海，利用大海达到自己的目的并从大海中夺到财富的不由自主的欲望。