It could be a loner, or it could be a foreign state.

它可能是一个独行侠，也可能是一个外国组织。

Since then, money, munitions and mercenaries have flowed there from foreign states with interests in the oil-rich nation.

从那时起，资金、弹药和雇佣军便源源不断地从垂涎盛产石油的利比亚的外邦涌入利比亚。

This policy of lending money to foreign states is, so far as I know peculiar to the canton of Berne.

据我所知，这种向外国借钱的政策是伯尔尼州特有的。

If it has amassed a treasure, it may lend a part of that treasure, either to foreign states, or to its own subjects.

如果它积累了财富， 它可以将该财富的一部分借给外国或本国人民。

Exportation was encouraged sometimes by drawbacks, sometimes by bounties, sometimes by advantageous treaties of commerce with foreign states, and sometimes by the establishment of colonies in distant countries.

出口有时受到退税的鼓励，有时受到赏金的鼓励，有时受到与外国签订的有利贸易条约的鼓励，有时受到在遥远国家建立殖民地的鼓励。

By advantageous treaties of commerce, particular privileges were procured in some foreign state for the goods and merchants of the country, beyond what were granted to those of other countries.

通过有利的商业条约，一些外国为该国的商品和商人获得了特殊的特权，超出了其他国家的特权。

The canton of Berne derives a considerable revenue by lending a part of its treasure to foreign states, that is, by placing it in the public funds of the different indebted nations of Europe, chiefly in those of France and England.

伯尔尼州通过将其部分财富借给外国，即把它投入欧洲不同负债国家的公共基金，主要是法国和英国的公共基金，获得了可观的收入。