buccaneering
基本解释
- n. 海盗行为;掠夺
- adj. 海盗的
- v. 当海盗;当冒险家(buccaneer的ing形式)
英汉例句
- 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.
但他对中央情报局的主要策划者对事件的描述起了疑问,这位策划者是西奥多•罗斯福的孙子科密特•罗斯福,他有着海盗式的作风。 - 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.
不过默克尔先生也是资本主义掠夺性和冒险性的代表,这和许多人认为的德国商业主导价值是相悖的。 - 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.
在当国际银行们驾着全球资本流动的风潮时,大肆掠夺的瑞士现在控制它建立全球银行的野心。 - 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
双语例句
权威例句
英英字典
- A buccaneer was a , especially one who attacked and stole from Spanish ships in the 17th and 18th centuries. (1718)
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专业释义
- (尤指17世纪后半叶掠夺西班牙殖民地和美洲沿岸船只的)西印度海盗