Pompey had cleared the Mediterranean of pirates, which is something that our governments can't seem to do.

庞贝清除了地中海的海盗，这点我们政府似乎办不到。

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You have one where you have almost only pirates in there.

有一家只招待海盗的酒吧。

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People look like pirates, so it's fun.

里面的人穿着打扮成海盗的样子，很有趣。

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Instead,one of them gets kidnapped or has to go off to war or captured by pirates, and she's taken off by pirates and sold into slavery, and she goes all the way around the Mediterranean, and the young man follows her around the Mediterranean in chapter after chapter after chapter.

相反，其中一人会被绑架,或者参军打仗，或者被海盗俘虏，女方被海盗掳走，卖作奴隶，她会一路在地中海四处转辗，男方会追随她走遍地中海,就这样一章又一章。

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Because a lot of these ships go blub on the way back, or are taken by pirates and stuff like that, they say, "We want to insure this ship.

因为有很多船只在回程的时候会损坏,或是被海盗之类的匪徒抢劫,他们说,"我们想为这船提供保险

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