Recent test drilling prompted the dispatch of a Turkish gunboat.

最近的钻探测试还引来了土耳其出动的炮艇。

It took Haiti's gold reserves away on gunboats, then intervened to guarantee American banking interests.

它用炮艇抢走了海地的黄金储备，强行介入以确保美国银行的利益。

Soon Raphael Semmes and the Confederate Navy would tend to those Yankee gunboats and the ports would be wide open.

不久拉斐尔·塞姆斯和南部联盟的海军就要来对付那些北方佬的炮艇，港口就会打开。

More Northern gunboats came up the river.

更多的北方炮舰逆流而上。

The Union gunboats finally turned around and headed back.

联盟的炮艇终于调头返航了。

The more powerful country opened the door of the weaker one by gunboat diplomacy.

强国用炮舰外交打开了弱国的大门。

The Yankee gunboats had tightened the mesh at the ports and very few ships were now able to slip past the blockade.

北方炮艇对南方港口的封锁已更加严密，能够偷越的船只已很少很少了。

He requested the support of four British ships and about ten gunboats. A group of American ships of about the same size also entered the lake.

他请求四艘英国船只和大约十艘炮艇支援。一只同样规模的美国船只也进入了该湖。

In the same year, Japanese planes sank an American gunboat in the Yangtze River in China. But few Americans showed any interest in going to war over the incident.

同年，日本飞机在中国长江击沉了一艘美国炮艇。但是，很少有美国人有兴趣就此事件发动战争。

He said almost all of the national debt had been paid. And he said more than one hundred gunboats had been built -- enough, he declared, to defend the country.

他说，几乎所有的国债都已偿还，已经建造了一百多艘炮艇，足以保卫国家。