Vandal
['vænd(ə)l] or ['vændl]
解释:
(noun.) someone who willfully destroys or defaces property.
(noun.) a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455.
整理:洛蒂--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.
(n.) Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.
(a.) Alt. of Vandalic
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同义词及近义词：
n. Barbarian, savage.
a. Barbarous, savage, Vandalic.
戈登编辑
解释:
n. one of a fierce race from north-eastern Germany who entered Gaul about the beginning of the 5th century crossed the Pyrenees into Spain (leaving their name in Andalusia=Vandalitia) next under Genseric crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and carried devastation and ruin from the shores of the Atlantic to the frontiers of Cyrene: any one hostile to arts or literature a barbarian.—adjs. Van′dal Vandal′ic barbarous rude.—n. Van′dalism hostility to arts or literature.
手打:威特
例句:
- He was also urged to attack the Eastern empire by Genseric the Vandal, who was faced by an alliance of the Western and Eastern emperors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Of the Vandal kingdom in Africa we have already written; and Italy, still in its population and habits Roman, came under the rule of the Ostrogoths. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The whole Vandal nation, men, women, and children, that came from Spain to Africa, for example, did not number more than eighty thousand souls. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Vandal kingdom was recovered in 534; the Goths were expelled from Italy in 553. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- At the time of its greatest extent (477) this Vandal kingdom included also Corsica, Sardinia, and the Balearic Isles, as well as much of North Africa. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Manifestly the Vandals came in as a positive relief to such a system. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Fresh Vandals, more Goths, Alans, Suevi, marched freely westward, living upon the country. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- As we have told, he reconquered the African province from the Vandals and most of Italy from the Goths. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Instead, we see the Vandals becoming masters of the western Mediterranean without so much as a naval battle. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Where the trees were sparse and the foliage was thin, the same cheerful band of vandals marked the spots E to indicate that there it would be easy to run the wires. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- In Portugal and north of the Vandals in Spain were Visigoths and Suevi. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- From the latter par t of the fourth century the Roman Empire had been overrun by the Visigot hs, the Vandals, the Huns, the Ostrogoths, the Lombards, and other barbarians. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The Visigoths (or West Goths) followed the example of the Vandals, and made arrangements to cross the Danube into Roman territory. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was while the Vandals were still in Africa that a great leader, Attila, arose among the Huns. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
整理:怀亚特