the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates
a part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849);
"we'll tolerate no Barbary Coast in this city!"
Barbary Coast 例句
英汉例句
Tired of their ceaseless ransom demands, President Thomas Jefferson builds a navy and goes to war against the pirate states of the Barbary Coast of North Africa.
在对他们的赎金要求感到厌倦之后,杰斐逊总统组建了一支海军向北美巴巴利海岸的海盗组织宣战。
Bronze medallions embedded in San Francisco sidewalks take visitors along the Barbary Coast Trail, a walking tour that connects the city's most important historic sites.
在旧金山的人行道嵌入式青铜奖章沿着北非海岸步道,徒步旅行,连接一个城市最重要的历史遗址参观。
In fact, in a span of less than a decade, Barbary Coast corsairs plundered nearly 500 merchant vessels, commandeering the ships and selling the crews and passengers into slavery.