It was freezing cold outside, so I didn't want to get out of the car and just stayed at the wheel when we passed a cafe.

外面很冷，所以当我们经过一家咖啡馆时，我不想下车，就呆在驾驶座上。

A car swept past with Laura at the wheel.

劳拉驾驶一辆汽车疾驰而过。

The driver had probably blacked out at the wheel.

司机很可能在开车时昏厥了。

Lieutenant Campbell ordered the man at the wheel to steer for the gunboat.

坎贝尔上尉命令舵手向炮艇驶去。

Nearly every driver has experienced that feeling of great tiredness, where it becomes almost impossible to stay awake at the wheel.

几乎每个司机都经历过那种极度疲劳的感觉，在那种情况下开车几乎不可能保持清醒。

Loosen tie rod at the wheel carrier.

松开车轮支架处的横拉杆。

Peak oil: We are asleep at the wheel.

石油峰值：呼噜方向盘上的我们。

Too big a risk, even with Mr. Eastwood at the wheel.

纵使有伊斯特伍德保驾护航，冒的险也忒大了吧。

With her at the wheel, the company began to prosper.

有了她当主管，公司开始兴旺起来。

The officer at the wheel demands that they stop, but the men run on.

车上的警察叫他们停住，但他们继续跑着。

Because of different personalities, not everyone can be at the wheel.

由于性格不同，不是每个人都能带头。

Harder to notice was that the person at the wheel was not actually driving.

就算你看到这辆车，你也不一定能注意到方向盘前的那个人其实并没有在驾驶。

All other methods of staying awake and alert at the wheel are unproven.

另外一些在开车时保持清醒和警惕的方法都是未经证实的。

We are more like pinballs bouncing around a machine than captains at the wheel.

生活中我们更像是弹子机里的弹珠而不是手握方向舵的船长。

Many who have fallen asleep at the wheel of an automobile can testify to this.

很多在汽车的方向盘后睡着的人可以证明这点。

I know this from experience, having offered Suggestions to my wife at the wheel.

我有过这方面的经验，当我的妻子在开车时我向她提建议。

You just zoned out; you were somewhere else, and it's as if you've suddenly woken up at the wheel.

你只是走神了，神游到了别的什么地方，而且好像你突然间意识到了车轮子。

He was on the way home and a truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and swerved right /into/ him.

他驾车回家的时候被一辆卡车撞了。

The sound of a horn from the car behind us prompted me to look up. The young man at the wheel was smiling broadly.

不一会，从我车后传来了喇叭声，我抬头望去：驾车的小伙子正咧着嘴对我大笑。

Once cars are assembled the more conspicuous type of testing begins, out on race tracks with real drivers at the wheel.

待车子装配好之后，我们就可以看到试车员们开着赛车在赛道上进行的那些更引人注意的测试工作。

She said periods of micro sleep were thought to be the most likely cause of people falling asleep at the wheel while driving.

她说，一般认为，造成微睡眠多半像汽车驾驶司机驾车时打瞌睡。

According to Bartenev, the Arctic Sea's crew plucked his seven friends from their stricken boat while he stayed at the wheel.

根据巴尔捷涅夫的说法，当“北冰洋”号的船员把他的7位朋友从故障艇上拽上去的时候，他还留在小艇的驾驶台上。

Crews found more than a dozen bodies, some trapped beneath homes flipped on their roofs, another at the wheel of his overturned car.

搜救人员发现了超过一打的遗体，有些被困在自家翻倒的房顶上，有些在翻倒的汽车车轮下。

The United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar was travelling behind Ronaldo, at the wheel of his own Bentley, at the time of the accident.

车祸发生时，曼联门将范德萨正开着他自己的宾利车行驶在C罗的后面。

It costs nothing to hide behind this defense, and who wants to admit that they were asleep at the wheel or not looking out the window?

藏在这道防线后面不会付出任何成本，而谁又愿意承认自己开车时在方向盘上睡着了，或者根本没有观察窗外呢？

Satan pocketed a bottle and shuffled toward the car. Peeking inside, he saw a callow young man at the wheel. "Where you headed?" he said.

撒旦将一只瓶子揣进口袋，拖着双脚走向车子。往里一瞄，发现驾车的是个愣头小伙子。“你去哪？”他问。

Cell phone companies have been asleep at the wheel for years, loath to upgrade to expensive new networks when their old ones "work just fine."

移动电话公司打盹开车好些年了，在自己的老网“工作得很好”的时候，它们不愿升级到昂贵的新网络去。