After a spike in pirate attacks in the gulf of aden in the fall , 18 countries contributed warships to an armada to police the region .
在去年秋天亚丁湾的海盗活动剧增之后,18个国家派遣军舰组成舰队来维护当地的治安。
From the sheltered waters of subic bay in the philippines to falmouth on the south coast of england , a vast , swelling armada lies idle .
从菲律宾的苏比克湾一直到英格兰南部海岸法尔茅斯港口的避难水域,庞大壮观的舰队闲置着。
Perhaps , though , they not only permitted the vikings to reach america , but also helped save england from the spanish armada .
不过,它们可能不仅帮助维京人抵达了美洲,也曾使得英格兰免于西班牙舰队的侵袭。
The tar-barrel tradition may have begun as a pagan ceremony to get rid of evil spirits or as a warning signal that the spanish armada was bearing down on the town or as a way to fumigate cottages .
His mother was frightened into labour by the rumoured approach of the spanish armada , leading hobbes to quip that she " did bring forth twins at once , both me , and fear . " Logic ?
他母亲被传说中西班牙无敌舰队的登陆吓到生产,以致霍布斯俏皮地说她“生下了双胞胎,我和恐惧。”
Or , as the popular historian dominic sandbrook puts it , we need to return to ' the stories that make up a nation 's collective memory , that fire the imagination , that bind the generations ' ' alfred and the cakes ' or ' drake and the armada ' .
He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should-in which , for example , the spanish armada was a success or the russian revolution was crushed in 1918-and he will transfer fragments of this world to the history books whenever possible .