privateering
英
美
n. 私掠制；掳获商船；以私掠船巡逻
v. 私掠巡航（privateer的ing形式）
双语例句
- Mr Clare also stepped out of line, and began privateering about for the weed.
克莱尔先生也从搜寻的一排人中退了出来，开始四下胡乱地搜寻着。 - All nations engaged in privateering from the earliest times until the19th century.
所有国家在19世纪之前都曾利用武装民船进行私掠行动。 - Smuggling, privateering, and legal trade with overseas partners only partially offset the drastic trade reductions with Britain.
与海外贸易伙伴的私下及合法的贸易只是部分地抵消了与英国的贸易缩减量。 - Since privateers frequently ignored the constraints of their commissions, privateering was often difficult to distinguish from common piracy.
由于私掠船往往对特许状上的限制条款视而不见，因而一般说来很难把他们的所作所为与海盗行径区分开来。