So sea access was always hard for Poland and consequently, Poland never became a historically significant naval power.

所以海上通道对波兰来说一直很困难，因此波兰从来没有成为历史上重要的海军强国。

And he turned the Ottomans into a huge naval power.

他将奥斯曼帝国变成了强大的海军力量。

But this great naval power could not, in either of those wars, be owing to the act of navigation.

但是，在这两场战争中，这种强大的海军力量不可能归功于航海行为。

The fact that the United States is now the third naval power is largely owing to these early activities of Whitney.

美国现在是第三大海军强国，这在很大程度上要归功于惠特尼的这些早期活动。

And, of course, it's also important that we have really good relations with the United States, which is the biggest naval power in the world.

当然，与世界上最大的海上强国美国保持良好关系也十分重要。

The Zhengs were unlike many other historically-known privateers, such as Henry Morgan or Barbarossa, who acted on behalf of various naval powers.

郑家不像许多其他历史上著名的私掠船，例如亨利·摩根或巴巴罗萨，他们代表不同的海军强国行事。

A series of storms prior to the battle would see nearly a third of the Persian fleet sunk, severely lowering their naval power.

战斗前的一系列风暴导致近三分之一的波斯舰队沉没，严重削弱了他们的海军力量。

To obtain the oil in the Dutch East Indies, Japan had to engage in war with the  world's two most significant naval powers.

为了获得荷属东印度群岛的石油，日本不得不与世界上两个最重要的海军强国交战。

In the 12 century economic threats rose in the West as rising Italian Naval powers like Venice and Genoa started cutting Byzantine Empire out of Eastern markets.

12世纪来自西方的经济威胁渐盛，兴起的海上意大利城市如威尼斯和热那亚也开始把拜占庭挤出东部市场。

Britain would eventually emerge as the larger mercantile and naval power and in control of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in North America, which was renamed New York.

英国最终将成为更大的商业和海军强国， 并控制北美的荷兰殖民地新阿姆斯特丹，该殖民地更名为纽约。

This effectively placed Churchill in charge of the Royal Navy at a time when Britain's naval power was still paramount globally and was the backbone of its vast empire.

这有效地让丘吉尔负责皇家海军，当时英国的海军力量仍然在全球范围内占据主导地位，并且是其庞大帝国的支柱。

To increase the shipping and naval power of Great Britain by the extension of the fisheries of our colonies, is an object which the legislature seems to have had almost constantly in view.

通过扩大我们殖民地的渔业来增强英国的航运和海军力量，是立法机关似乎几乎一直在考虑的一个目标。

That England was in a position to eventually eclipse the Dutch as the major naval and trading power in Europe was perhaps due to the expansion of its colonial empire during Charles' reign.

英国最终超越荷兰，成为欧洲主要的海军和贸易强国，这或许是由于其殖民帝国在查理统治期间的扩张。

If the Senate had its doubts at first about the wisdom of acquiring strategic points for naval power in distant seas, the same could not be said of the State Department or naval officers.

—如果参议院一开始对在遥远海域获得海军力量的战略要点是否明智持怀疑态度，那么国务院或海军军官就不能这样说了。

In terms of naval power, North Korea has again been accused of being completely out of its depth in terms of technology, with most of its fleet being built in the 50s and 60s.

在海军力量方面， 朝鲜再次被指责在技术方面完全超出其深度，其大部分舰队都是在 50 年代和 60 年代建造的。

National animosity, at that particular time, aimed at the very same object which the most deliberate wisdom would have recommended, the diminution of the naval power of Holland, the only naval power which could endanger the security of England.

在那个特定的时间，民族仇恨的目标与最深思熟虑的智慧所建议的目标完全相同，即削弱荷兰的海军力量，而荷兰是唯一可能危及英格兰安全的海军力量。

It's interesting how Australia's strategic culture, because I think it developed at the knee of the leading naval power of the day, the Brits, we've always, as you say, had a global lens even when we haven't had global capabilities.

澳大利亚的战略文化很有趣，因为我认为它是在当时领先的海军力量的膝下发展起来的，英国人，正如你所说，即使我们没有全球能力， 我们也一直拥有全球视角。