buccaneering
基本解釋
- n. 海盜行為;掠奪
- adj. 海盜的
- v. 當(dāng)海盜;當(dāng)冒險家(buccaneer的ing形式)
英漢例句
- But he casts doubt on one account of events that was penned by the main CIA plotter, Kermit Roosevelt, a buccaneering grandson of Theodore Roosevelt.
但他對中央情報局的主要策劃者對事件的描述起了疑問,這位策劃者是西奧多?羅斯福的孫子科密特?羅斯福,他有著海盜式的作風(fēng)。 - Mr Merckle, however, also represented a buccaneering style of capitalism and appetite for risk that are at odds with what many see as the defining values of German business.
不過默克爾先生也是資本主義掠奪性和冒險性的代表,這和許多人認(rèn)為的德國商業(yè)主導(dǎo)價值是相悖的。 - Switzerland, which grew rich as its buccaneering international banks sailed the tides of capital flowing around the world, is now downsizing its global banking ambitions.
在當(dāng)國際銀行們駕著全球資本流動的風(fēng)潮時,大肆掠奪的瑞士現(xiàn)在控制它建立全球銀行的野心。 - Chrysler likes to pride itself on its buccaneering approach, where speed and ingenuity are prized.
ECONOMIST: After the deal - Moreover, it's no longer a lonely planet out there: Destinations that once earned you a merit badge in buccaneering now offer levels of luxury that were unimaginable 20 years ago.
FORBES: New Horizons - Back in the buccaneering 1970s, cable systems would twist the arms of local governments with whom they were negotiating rates by cutting all programming, and screening instead the officials' names and addresses.
ECONOMIST: Friend of Bill
雙語例句
權(quán)威例句
英英字典
- A buccaneer was a , especially one who attacked and stole from Spanish ships in the 17th and 18th centuries. (1718)
柯林斯英英字典
專業(yè)釋義
- (尤指17世紀(jì)后半葉掠奪西班牙殖民地和美洲沿岸船只的)西印度海盜