wet gun meaning in Chinese
甲板炮
Examples
- I had the biggest maggazin of all kinds now that ever were laid up , i believe , for one man , but i was not satisfy d still ; for while the ship sat upright in that posture , i thought i ought to get every thing out of her that i could ; so every day at low water i went on board , and brought away some thing or other : but particularly the third time i went , i brought away as much of the rigging as i could , as also all the small ropes and rope - twine i could get , with a piece of spare canvass , which was to mend the sails upon occasion , the barrel of wet gun - powder : in a word , i brought away all the sails first and last , only that i was fain to cut them in pieces , and bring as much at a time as i could ; for they were no more useful to be sails , but as meer canvass only
但我并不以此为满足,我想趁那只船还搁浅在那儿时,尽可能把可以搬动的东西弄下来。因此,我每天趁退潮时上船,每次都运回些东西。特别是第三次,我把船上所有的粗细绳子通通取了来,同时又拿了一块备用帆布,那是备着补帆用的我甚至把那桶受了潮的火药也运了回来,一句话,我把船上的帆都拿了下来,不过我都把它们裁成一块块的,每次能拿多少就拿多少,因为现在,我需要的不是帆,而是帆布。