pirate

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n. 海盗, 盗印者, 侵犯专利权者 vt. 盗印, 掠夺, 翻印 vi. 做海盗, 从事劫掠

发音

UK /ˈpaɪɹət/
UK /ˈpaɪ̯(ə)ɹɪt/
US /ˈpaɪɹət/
IN /paiɾeːʈ/

词形变化

pirates 复数 pirates pirated pirates 三单 pirating pirating 现在分词 pirated 过去式 pirated 过去分词

别名

pyrate

教材释义与例句

名词

海盗;盗版;侵犯专利权者

动词

掠夺;翻印;剽窃

动词

做海盗;从事劫掠

释义与例句

n. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.

    海盗

    海贼

    You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.

  2. 2.

    An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.

    海盗船

  3. 3.

    One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.

    盗版业者

    引申义

    And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.

  4. 4.

    A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.

    生物 动物学
  5. 5.

    A kind of marble in children's games.

v.
  1. 1.

    To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.

    及物

    They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.

  2. 2.

    To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.

    盗版

    及物 法律
  3. 3.

    To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.

    及物 法律

    Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.

  4. 4.

    To engage in piracy.

    不及物

    He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.

  5. 5.

    To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.

    不及物 及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.

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词源

From Middle English pirate, pirat, pyrat, from Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta (“pirate”), from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”). Displaced native Old English wīċing, which was the word for both "pirate" and "viking".

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