A privateer was basically a legal British mercenary pirate.

私员是合法的英国雇佣军海盗。

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

他们的私束了该地区对英国商的袭击。

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

私员通常只一段时间内追踪一艘特定的舶。

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

- 1619 年，英国私 white lion 吉尼亚州的 Point Comfort 登陆。

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

基德的身份是私长，可以最恰当地形容为得到国家认可的海盗。

At its head was a pirate, a corsair, a man known to the Spanish Crown.

其领导之下是一名海盗，一名私长，一个西班牙王室熟知的人物。

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

泽西岛曾为英国的私提供了基地，这些私专门袭击法国和美国的商。

Woods Rogers was a privateer and he himself had a lot of experience sailing into the South Seas.

伍兹·罗杰斯是一名私长，他本人航行至南海方面有着丰富的经验。

Sir Francis Drake, a privateer supported by Elizabeth, led raids on Spanish ports and trading ships.

朗西斯·德雷克爵士是伊丽莎白支持的私，领导了对西班牙港口和商的袭击。

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，他成了从私长，即国家支持的海盗， 向真正海盗的转变。

The breeze now springing up, and the privateer showing lights, we were enabled to get alongside of her in a couple of hours.

现微风吹拂， 私露出灯光，我们得以几个小时内与她并肩作战。

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， 把战利品的大部分货物都带上了私。

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。罗马和意大利的私频繁袭击沿海地区，有时甚至逼近迦太基本土。

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，有许多许多私被英国政府和其他欧洲国家政府雇佣，海上与敌人作战。

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而闻名，这些私是美国公民，会出海劫英国商。

Night was now coming on; the privateer had got under weigh, and was standing off-and-on, with a flag of truce flying at her mast-head.

夜幕降临了;这艘私负重，断断续续地站着， 桅杆上飘扬着休战的旗帜。

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.

漫长的海外航行充其量是不确定的，当法国的军舰与美国的私一起捕食补给时，情况就更加不确定了。

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的法国私长纪尧姆·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。

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.

为了消除那种老式的伊丽莎白时代气息，一群私长随时都可能撇下大家，去追求个人的战利品。

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， 讽刺的是， 鉴于他曾作为私员的经历，他皇家海军的职责竟是非洲西海岸执行反海盗措施。