Russia said that it had found a hijacked merchant ship that had gone missing in the Baltic Sea on July 30th en route to Algeria.
俄罗斯说它发现一艘被劫持的商船驶向阿尔及利亚的途中在7月30号消失于波罗的海。The ship said it had been fired on by men in a small boat, who were trying to board it.
这艘船说,一艘小船上的人向他们开火,并企图登上他们的商船。Stray mines began to turn up off the Pacific coast, imperiling commercial shipping.
散逸的水雷开始在太平洋海岸出现而危及商船的航行。The Endeavour was not a warship but an old merchant ship, just like the one on which Cook had learnt his seamanship.
“奋力”号并不是一艘战舰,而是一艘旧商船,就像库克过去学航海技术时乘过的那艘船一样。perhaps he was a sea captain, a runaway from his wife, an old soldier going home.
或许他是位商船船长,或是一个抛下妻子离家出走的人,再不就是一个退役的老战士。It was built up as a coal station for British merchant ships traveling to India, and its large natural harbor should make it a regional hub.
它是英国商船运往印度的煤碳中转站,它超大的天然海港理所当然的使之成为该地区的枢纽中心。All the servants might send something of their own with the ship and take their due share of the profits when it returned.
每个佣人都可以把自己的东西送到船上去,商船返航后,可分适当红利。The first merchant vessel to sail from New York to Canton in 1784 was on a tea-buying voyage, but the cargo it had to exchange was ginseng.
1784年第一艘由纽约驶往广州的商船就是为了购买茶叶,但它用于交换的货物却是西洋参。Almost all cargo vessels, by contrast, have flat bottoms, which allow a larger volume to be kept buoyant for a given amount of hull metal.
相比之下,几乎所有商船的底部都是平的,因为这样可以为庞大的金属船壳提供更大的浮力。