原级：gunboat
1. The gunboats were scheduled to conduct high seas seizure drills yesterday, but delayed the exercises due to bad weather.
2. Some 20 South Korean gunboats have been dispatched to the area in anticipation of the arrival of Japanese survey ships.
3. South Korea vehemently opposes Japan's survey plans and has dispatched 20 gunboats to the waters, and has warned of a possible physical confrontation if Japan proceeds.
4. Unlike the world's most modern democracies, the Chinese people were suppressed several times by outsiders with surpassingly sophisticated gunboats and cannons.
5. The state news agency said all targets were hit successfully, adding that navy gunboats and helicopters were used in the war games.
6. It was the Western civilization behind the gunboats and gunfire that truly impressed Confucian literati.