Highwayman
['haɪweɪmən] or ['haɪ'wemən]
解释:
(n.) One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.
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同义词及近义词：
n. Robber, footpad, bandit, brigand, freebooter, marauder, outlaw, highway robber.
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例句:
- Oh, had you but lived a few years earlier, what a gallant gentleman-highwayman you would have made! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- He rode like a highwayman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- The first seemed to be an assembly of heroes and demigods; the other, a knot of pedlars, pick-pockets, highwayman, and bullies. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Except that I remember them both to have been--like myself--timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
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