A privateer was basically a legal British mercenary pirate.

私掠船船员是合法英国雇佣军海盗。

Their privateers wrapped up their raids on English merchant ships in the region.

他们私掠船结束了该地区对英国商船袭击。

A privateer was usually limited to tracking down one particular ship for a certain period of time.

私掠船船员通一段时间内追踪一艘特定船舶。

In 1619, the English privateer ship, white lion landed at Point Comfort in Virginia.

- 1619 年，英国私掠船 white lion 弗吉尼亚州 Point Comfort 登陆。

Kidd was something called a privateer, which one might best describe as a state-sanctioned pirate.

基德身份是私掠船船长，可以最恰当地形容为得到国家认可海盗。

Thus, as Madison reported back to Congress, at this point only two of the folks had been released, and American shipping was still under attack by Algerian corsairs in the Mediterranean.

因此， 正如麦迪逊向国会汇报那样，此时有两人获释，美国船地中海仍受到阿尔及亚私掠船袭击。

Coming to terms with the fact that the prospects of peace were increasingly remote, Jay turned to military matters and supported the use of privateers to attack British shipping.

随着认识到和前景日益渺茫，杰伊转向军事事务， 支持使用私掠船攻击英国船。

Ironically for Selkirk, given his previous existence as a privateer, his job with the Royal Navy is to enforce anti-piracy measures off the west coast of Africa.

对塞尔扣克而言， 讽刺是， 鉴于他曾作为私掠船船员经历，他皇家海军职责竟是非洲西海岸执行反海盗措施。

To banish the old Elizabethan vibe of a bunch of privateering captains likely to dash off in a personal pursuit for prizes at any given moment.

为了消除那种老式伊丽莎白时代气息，一群私掠船船长随时都可能撇下大家，去追求个人品。

The long oversea voyages were uncertain at best and doubly so when the warships of France joined the American privateers in preying on supply boats.

漫长海外航行充其量是不确定，当法国军舰与美国私掠船一起捕食补给船时，情况就更加不确定了。

The British have a particular hostility towards the city because it's known to harbor privateers, Americans who would go out and plunder British merchant ships.

英国人对这座城市怀有特殊敌意，因为这座城市以庇护私掠船而闻名，这些私掠船是美国公民，会出海劫掠英国商船。

There was a veteran French privateer, Guillaume Letestu, in the area, and so they hooked up and agreed that it would be an Anglo-French-African attack.

当地有一位经验丰富法国私掠船船长纪尧姆·勒泰斯图，于是他们联手并达成协议，将发动一场英法非联合攻击。

Not everything was going their way in Africa, however, as Roman and Italian privateers repeatedly raided the coastline, sometimes quite close to Carthage itself.

然而， 非洲， 并非所有事情都如迦太基所愿。罗马和意大私掠船频繁袭击沿海地区，有时甚至逼近迦太基本土。

Jersey provided a base for British privateers  who prayed on the French and American Merchant vessels.

泽西岛曾为英国私掠船提供了基地，这些私掠船专门袭击法国和美国商船。

The siege lasted for 106 days, but finally, with people inside the city starving and with no relief anticipated for its defenders, in December, a fleet of 14 privateers and merchantmen set sail and the city surrendered to the Spanish.

围困持续了106天，但最终，随着城内民众饥肠辘辘， 守军也未盼来援兵，12月，一支由14艘私掠船和商船组成舰队启航， 该城向西班牙投降。

The towering Spanish ships were built to do several jobs, to overwhelm indigenous peoples as they pushed their empire ever further, to dissuade pirates and privateers from attacking their treasure fleets.

这些庞大西班牙船被设计用于多种任务：不断扩张帝国版图过程中，它们要能压制原住民； 同时，它们还要能震慑海盗和私掠船， 防止他们袭击西班牙宝藏舰队。

Less spectacular, and more distinctive, were the deeds of the hundreds of privateers and minor captains who overhauled British supply ships and kept British merchantmen in constant anxiety.

数百名私掠船和未成年船长检修英国补给船并让英国商船一直处于焦虑之中，他们事迹不那么引人注目，但更加与众不同。

So there were many, many privateers who were hired by the English government and other European governments to fight against their enemies at sea.

因此，有许多许多私掠船被英国政府和其他欧洲国家政府雇佣，海上与敌人作。

Kidd took the treasure, and with it, he had completed the transition from privateer, or state-sponsored pirate, to real pirate.

基德拿走了财宝， 借此，他完成了从私掠船船长，即国家支持海盗， 向真正海盗转变。

During the night, we ran along shore, and, in the morning, took on board the privateer the greater part of the prize's cargo.

晚上，我们沿着岸边跑，第二天早上， 把品大部分货物都带上了私掠船。