Booty
['buːtɪ] or ['bʊti]
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
黛布拉整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Plunder (to be used for any purpose), spoil, pillage, PREY.
埃里卡手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Plunder, blackmail, loot, spoils, prey, pillage
ANT:Restitution, fine, confiscation, forfeiture, amercement, penalty
达拉整理
解釋/意思:
n. spoil taken in war or by force: plunder a prize.—To play booty to join with others in order to cheat one player to play a game with intention to lose.
格思里整理
例句/造句/用法:
- He made a raid on a neighboring baron and completed his outfit with the booty secured. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I should, therefore, ere now, have left this place; and I waited--not to share the booty, for, so help me God and Saint Withold! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Don't play booty with me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- He opened the package showing the books, somewhat to the disgust of the officer, who imagined he had caught a burglar sneaking away in the dark alley with his booty. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- You are playing Booty with my clerk, are you, Copperfield? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Besides, why shouldst thou think evil is to come to the girl, even if she became Bois-Guilbert's booty? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Five of 'em strung up in a row, and none left to play booty, or turn white-livered! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- When they had acquired any booty, they were eager to return home, and his authority was seldom sufficient to detain them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- And to pay was added booty. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He is too like ourselves for us to make booty of him, since dogs should not worry dogs where wolves and foxes are to be found in abundance. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The prisoner I speak of is better booty--a jolly monk riding to visit his leman, an I may judge by his horse-gear and wearing apparel. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- With six men, and good hope of booty, if it please St Nicholas. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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