Pillage
['pɪlɪdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of pillaging; robbery.
(n.) That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.
(v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.
(v. i.) To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
手打:拉蒙纳
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Spoliation, depredation, destruction, devastation, plundering, rapine.[2]. Plunder, booty, spoil, prey.
v. a. Plunder, spoil, despoil, sack.
伯尼編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
[See PILFER]
艾德里安整理
解釋/意思:
n. (Shak.) act of plundering: plunder: spoil esp. taken in war.—v.t. to plunder or spoil.—v.t. Pill to rob or plunder.—n. Pill′ager.
整理:玛丽
例句/造句/用法:
- How many there are I did not ask; but I could not think of allowing them to pillage the house, as it were. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Conquerors have gone forth with the blessing of popes; a nation invokes its God before beginning a campaign of murder, rape and pillage. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In 389 A.D ne of the libraries at Alexandria was destroyed and its books were pillaged by t he Christians. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- That gentleman's eye fell on his desk, pillaged. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Désirée was kept in some measure from the servants, but she teased and pillaged her mamma instead. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- They stormed the city and pillaged it (1527). 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Promiscuous pillaging, however, was discouraged and punished. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
錄入:里基