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You came out of a grubby sixth-rate farm on a tenth-rate planet, and destroyed my life.
Surgiste de una granja destartalada de sexta categoría, de un planeta de décima división, y destruiste mi vida.
These were its only armament, and they were hardly suited against even a fifth- or sixth-rate warship.
Este era su único armamento, así que no podía hacer nada contra un buque de guerra, aunque fuera de quinta o sexta categoría.
We all have them, you know. No: they call her a post-ship because she is commanded by a post-captain-I mean she is a sixth-rate, the smallest ship a man can be posted into, you follow me?
Todos los barcos lo tienen, ¿sabe? Ese es un barco de sexta clase, el más pequeño que puede estar bajo el mando de un capitán de navío, ¿comprende? –Más o menos.
yet he might be wrong; he might be leading his precious Bellone into an action with one of those stubby English sixth-rates that carried twenty-four-pounder carronades, the genuine smashers, served by a numerous, well-trained, bloody-minded crew;
embargo, podría estar equivocado, podría estar conduciendo su preciado Bellone a un enfrentamiento con uno de esos sólidos navíos ingleses de sexta clase que llevaban carronadas de veinticuatro
‘Well done,’ said Jack, swinging himself into the boat with an easy roll. ‘Well done indeed.’ Each stroke must have propelled Stephen a little less than three inches, for the Surprise was only a twenty-eight gun ship, a sixth-rate of 579 tons - the kind so harshly called a jackass frigate by those not belonging to her.
—Muy bien, muy bien —dijo Jack, subiendo al bote de un salto y pensando que en cada brazada Stephen debía de haberse desplazado menos de tres pulgadas, ya que la Surprise era simplemente una fragata de sexta categoría, de 579 toneladas y veintiocho cañones, la clase de fragata que llamaban «carraca» los que no pertenecían a ella—.
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