Plunder
['plʌndə] or ['plʌndɚ]
解释:
(verb.) steal goods; take as spoils; 'During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners'.
格罗夫斯整理--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
(v. t.) To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.
(n.) The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
(n.) That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.
(n.) Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.
汉克整理
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Pillage, spoil, despoil, rob, rifle, sack, ravage, fleece, strip, lay waste.
n. [1]. Rapine, booty, spoil, pillage, prey.[2]. [Southern and Western U. S.] Baggage, luggage.
珍妮特编辑
同义词及反义词：
[See PILLAGE]
海耶斯校对
解释:
v.t. to seize the goods of another by force: to pillage.—n. that which is seized by force: booty: (U.S.) household goods.—ns. Plun′derage the stealing of goods on board ship; Plun′derer.—adj. Plun′derous.
沙琳编辑
娱乐性解释：
v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanished opportunity.
校对:菲利斯
例句:
- Alcibiades would like nothing better than an excuse to plunder Melnos. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- They begin to develop a warmer interest in their personal leaders, who secure them pay and plunder. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The idea was that one of you was to marry her, and the other have a share of the plunder. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- You fled to the Continent with your plunder the next morning! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Of course, if they had been merely after plunder they would at least have made some attempt to search for it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- I never resist a temptation to plunder a stranger's premises without feeling insufferably vain about it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The king relied on his army, and this was usually a mercenary army of foreigners, speedily mutinous if there was no pay or plunder, and easily bribed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- From what we know of mankind, we are bound to conclude that the first sailors plundered when they could, and traded when they had to. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The wealth of the burghers never failed to provoke their envy and indignation, and they plundered them upon every occasion without mercy or remorse. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Josiah Bounderby of Coketown is not to be plundered and nobody suspected. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Ye have plundered my mails--torn my cope of curious cut lace, which might have served a cardinal! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The great church of Saint Sophia which Justinian the Great had built (532) was plundered of its treasures and turned at once into a mosque. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Anatolian peninsula had been ploughed and harrowed by the Persian armies; the great cities had been plundered and sacked. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It is certain that he who robs another of his moral reputation, more richly merits a gibbet than if he had plundered him of his purse on the highway. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- In 321 A.D. the Goths were again over the Danube, plundering what is now Serbia and Bulgaria. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- All the arguments urged in favour of negro slavery are applied with equal force to justify the plundering and enslaving of Europeans. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The transition to the sport of window-breaking, and thence to the plundering of public-houses, was easy and natural. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- It was Alexander who was outraging and plundering and enslaving all Thebes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Verily, what with tainting, plundering, and spoiling, Tom has his revenge. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- In each case there was a massacre, the plundering of the city, and the selling of the survivors into slavery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Caliphronas is a picturesque freebooter, and simply plunders on a large scale. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- 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.
手打:齐妮亚