"Great pirates of Penzance!" says I, "of all the nerve."

VOA: special.2011.01.22

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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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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One of the pirates pointed a gun at Captain Phillips and demanded that he order the crew to surrender.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

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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But it was not until eighteen fifteen and the Second Barbary War that the power of the Barbary pirates was broken.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

As the pirates spread out searching for hostages, the crew was even able to capture one of the Somalis.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

He offered the pirates a deal. He suggested the pirates could escape using one of the ship's lifeboats.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The warship will forever be linked to the dramatic rescue of Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

It accused the colonial government, for example, of not doing enough to protect ships from pirates.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Last November, Somali pirates seized a Saudi oil tanker carrying two million containers of oil.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The Congressional Research Service estimates that pirates were paid more than thirty million dollars for the release of ships and crews they held last year.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

But already this year, pirates have carried out more than eighty-four attacks in the waters of the Gulf of Aden and off the Somali coast.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Each of the nine Pirates in the lineup struck out at least once.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

Many Somali pirates are based in the lawless ports of the Puntland area.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Everyone knows that ships are a favorite target of pirates.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

One of their puppet plays is called "Bathtub Pirates."

VOA: special.2009.09.23

Some pirates catch fish instead of ships.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

In recent years, Somalia has seen a surge in ship hijackings that has netted pirates millions of dollars in ransom.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

This time the pirates have hijacked three fishing vessels from Thailand with a total crew of 77 Thais aboard the ships.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

He says a crackdown in the semi-autonomous Puntland region has meant the prisons are full of pirates.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

In recent years, Somali pirates have established bases in Mudug's coastal towns of Haradhere and Hobyo.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

The group says the pirates' missions are financed by criminals in a number of countries besides Somalia, including Lebanon,Kenya and the United Arab Emirates.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

Mwangura,whose claim can not be verified, told VOA the pirates may not be telling the truth when they deny the existence of the arms.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

But he warns that some of Somalia's pirates are shifting their attentions from the Gulf of Aden and instead sailing further out in the Indian Ocean.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Britain-based piracy expert Peter Lehr says Somalia's pirates are shifting their attentions from the Gulf of Aden and increasingly sailing farther out in the Indian Ocean.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Somali pirates are blamed for seizing more than 20 vessels since the beginning of last month and are holding more than Piracy is a lucrative, albeit dangerous,business.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

The president did not refer to a new round of threats from the pirates, who say they want revenge for the killing of three of their own in the rescue operation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

A number of different countries have sent navy patrols to the important sea route, but the immensity of the area targeted by the pirates has limited the effect of these few military ships.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

The capture of the Maersk Alabama made news around the world after the pirates let the ship and its 20 crew members go, but took the ship's captain hostage in an enclosed lifeboat.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22