Highwayman
['haɪweɪmən] or ['haɪ'wemən]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.
哈里森校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Robber, footpad, bandit, brigand, freebooter, marauder, outlaw, highway robber.
埃伦校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Oh, had you but lived a few years earlier, what a gallant gentleman-highwayman you would have made! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He rode like a highwayman. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The first seemed to be an assembly of heroes and demigods; the other, a knot of pedlars, pick-pockets, highwayman, and bullies. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- 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. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Except that I remember them both to have been--like myself--timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
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