Brigand
['brɪg(ə)nd] or ['brɪɡənd]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A light-armed, irregular foot soldier.
(n.) A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter.
校對:瓦珥
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Robber, highwayman, free-booter, marauder, outlaw, bandit.
伯尼編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a robber or freebooter.—ns. Brig′andage freebooting: plundering; Brig′andine Brig′antine a coat-of-mail composed of linen or leather with steel rings or plates sewed upon it.
校對:桑福德
例句/造句/用法:
- If I knew which rascal threw at the carriage, and if that brigand were sufficiently near it, he should be crushed under the wheels. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The brigand shouted again, but still we advanced. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- You are both rich, and can pay large ransoMs You scoundrel, you have been putting these brigand ideas into the old man's head. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Thief, brigand, conqueror! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- A frowsy, bearded brigand sprang into the road with a shout, and flourished a musket in the light of the moon! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- You spoke like a brigand who demanded my purse rather than like a lover who asked my heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Then finally, pell-mell, as rear-guard, Flandre, Swiss, Hundred Swiss, other bodyguards, brigands, whosoever cannot get before. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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