buccaneer
buccaneer 英 [ˌbʌkəˈnɪə(r)] 美 [ˌbʌkəˈnɪr]
n. 海盗 vi. 做海盗
名词复数:buccaneers
- Buccaneer is another name for "pirate." When you're sailing the open sea, you might worry about a buccaneer who wants to rob your ship and possibly enslave your crew.
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- n. 海盗
- vi. 做海盗
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1. Known for his bravery and leadership, Henry Morgan was perhaps the most famous buccaneer of all time.
亨利·摩根因其勇猛和领导才能而闻名，他可能是所有时代里最著名的海盗了。
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2. In fact, the buccaneers hated the Spanish because they destroyed pirate ships and towns and would capture and kill any buccaneer that they caught.
实际上，他们痛恨西班牙，因为西班牙海军摧毁海盗船和城镇，并且追踪和杀害任何他们逮捕的海盗。
- buccaneer (n.) "piratical rover on the Spanish coast," 1680s; earlier "one who roasts meat on a boucan" (1660s), from French boucanier "a pirate; a curer of wild meats, a user of a boucan," a native grill for roasting meat, from Tupi mukem (rendered in Portuguese as moquem c. 1587): "initial b and m are interchangeable in the Tupi language" [Klein] (the Haitian variant, barbacoa, became barbecue).
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