Bridges were raised to stop looters roaming.

为了阻止劫掠者游荡，该不得不将将桥梁高高悬起。

This also made Mr Anderson a considerable plunderer of the earth.

这也使得安德森先生成为了一位重要的地球资源劫掠者。

If the sacking was meant to be a warning, though, it had the opposite effect.

然而，如果劫掠是为了警告，那么它将产生相反的效果。

The group raided the fort at night, while the Redcoats were asleep.

这些在晚上劫掠堡垒，英国红衣军还在睡觉。

For centuries these two guardians were linked by a giant chain, which could be pulled tight to keep marauding ships at bay.

几个世纪以来这两位守护者被一条巨大的锁链连接着，可以拉紧以阻止劫掠的船只。

Many wanted to continue pillaging, while others dreamed of marching on Rome itself.

许多想要继续劫掠，而其他则幻想可以攻入罗马。

Rather, they expanded modest local practices into a rapacious global enterprise.

他们是将小规模的当地买卖扩展为贪婪劫掠的全球企业。

He was indeed at that time as superstitious as the rest.In a battle, he was killed by a Moor.The looting carried on in the name of the Christian God would indeed make the pagans blush.

当时，他确和其他一样迷信。在一场战役中，他被一个摩尔杀死。以基督教上帝的行的劫掠，真的连异教徒的脸都红了。

The Vandals, for instance, captured Carthage in 439 and used it as a base from which they launched their pirate ships to loot and burn the coastal towns.

汪达尔就这样穿过意大利雨果西西里向古老的迦太基发，他们在那里建立了一个海盗国家并乘坐他们的船只驶向各海岸城市，他们占领并劫掠这些城市。

And Egypt is displaying a gilded coffin returned to the country from New York's metropolitan museum of art, after U.S. investigators determined it to be a looted antiquity.

在美国调查员认定其为被劫掠的文物后，埃及将展出这具由纽约大都会艺术博物馆归还的黄金棺椁。

The quantity of ground thus swept is astonishing; and so completely has it been cleared that the gleaner who might follow in their rear would find his labor completely lost.

当然，大面积地面果将被劫掠一空，犹如刚刚结束彻底清扫，倘若有拾穗跟在鸽群后捡拾，终将一无所获。

Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey, If Time have any wrinkle graven there; If any, be a satire to decay, And make Time's spoils despised every where.

起来，慵困的诗神，快端详我爱的面庞，看有否长沟横渠在上面铺排。如果有，就写下讽刺衰朽的诗句，好让时光的劫掠品处处无踩。

Whereas prophets and novelists tend to imagine Armageddon as noisy - earthquakes, looting and whatnot - for the BBC, it would sound like Peter Donaldson.

尽管预言家和小说家倾向于将世界末日想象成一片嘈杂的景象——地震、劫掠等等——但对BBC来说，世界末日听起来就是彼得·唐纳森的声音。

Notre Dame, after all, is an architectural hybrid, the product of different centuries, ransacked during the wars of religion and looted during the revolution.

毕竟，巴黎圣母院本身就是建筑风格的混合体，是不同世纪的产物，在宗教战争期间遭到洗劫，又在大革命期间被劫掠。

Despite the images of teenage looters beamed across the world during last year’s riots, young people in Britain are broadly, and increasingly, well-behaved.

尽管去年各地发生的骚乱中出现过青少年趁机劫掠的现象，英国的年轻大致上——并且越来越——表现得体。

For example, there's a passage that says the Bedouin man is proud to engage in robbery and so educates his children.

比如，其中有一段说，贝多因很骄傲能劫掠他，也乐于向孩子言传身教。

The problem is that this makes an inviting target for looters and that continues to be a problem.

问题是这对劫掠者来说是一个诱的目标，这仍然是一个问题。

He and his men took money from these ships. Captain Kidd hid this money in different places.

劫掠财物，然后把不之财藏匿到世界各处。

He said men with weapons looted cattle and stores right before Nigerian and Cameroonian soldiers arrived.

他说，武装份子在尼日利亚和喀麦隆军队到达之前劫掠了大量牲畜和商店。

David Chaffetz, a scholar of Asian history, focuses his deeply researched, elegantly written " Raiders, Rulers and Traders" on the interplay between horse-borne nomads and settled peoples, a defining aspect of Chinese, Indian and Persian civilisations.

亚洲历史者大卫·查菲茨在其研究深入、文笔优雅的《劫掠者，统治者，贸易者》中，聚焦于骑马的游牧民族与定居民族之间的互动，这是定了中国、印度和波斯文明的一个方面。