plunder
n. 抢夺, 掠夺品, 战利品 v. 掠夺, 抢劫, 抢夺
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教材释义与例句
抢夺；战利品；掠夺品
掠夺；抢劫；侵吞
掠夺；盗窃
释义与例句
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An instance of plundering.
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The loot attained by plundering.
不可数The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it.
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Baggage; luggage.
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The crime of amassing ill-gotten wealth by public officials through a combination or series of overt criminal acts.
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To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
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及物The mercenaries plundered the small town.
The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
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To take (goods) by pillage.
及物The mercenaries plundered all the goods they found.
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To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
不及物“Now to plunder, mateys!” screamed a buccaneer, to cries of “Arrgh!” and “Aye!” all around.
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To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
及物The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste.
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To take unexpectedly.
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Recorded since 1632 during the Thirty Years War, native British use since the Cromwellian Civil War. Borrowed from German plündern (“to loot”), from Middle High German, from Middle Low German plunderen, from a noun originally meaning "household goods, bedding, clothing," of obscure ultimate origin. This is first attested in medieval records, and according to Gijsseling, is therefore attested too late to be considered a substrate word. Due to the lack of obvious cognates in other languages from which it would have been loaned, it could have developed as some slang word in Lower Saxony/the Low Countries. Cognate with Dutch plunderen, West Frisian plonderje, Saterland Frisian plunnerje. Probably denominal from a word for “household goods, clothes, bedding”; compare Middle Dutch plunder, German Plunder (“stuff”), Dutch and West Frisian plunje (“clothes”). The Philippine definition originates with the Anti-Plunder Act, an act of Congress enacted in 1991.
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