Piracy
['paɪrəsɪ] or ['paɪrəsi]
解释:
(noun.) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it; 'air piracy'.
安琪编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act or crime of a pirate.
(n.) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.
(n.)
贝蒂整理
娱乐性解释:
n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles just as God made it.
录入:丽贝卡
例句:
- The slave-trade is now, by American law, considered as piracy. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- But Rome went on its way quite stupidly, oblivious to the growth of a newer and more powerful piracy in the north. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The average American rarely speaks of industrial piracy as immoral. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It had come to buy and sell, and it found itself achieving a tremendous piracy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He then secured his inventions by patents against piracy, and sustained them successfully in many a hard-fought battle. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Thereupon Carthage, which was also vitally concerned in the suppression of piracy, came to his aid, and put in a Carthaginian garrison at Messina. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
整理:丽纳