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 plunder ['plʌndә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 抢夺, 掠夺品, 战利品

vt. 掠夺, 抢劫, 抢夺

vi. 掠夺, 抢劫, 抢夺

[法] 抢劫, 掠夺, 掠夺物




    plunder


    Plunder \Plun"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plundered}; p. pr. &
    vb. n. {Plundering}.] [G. pl["u]ndern to plunder, plunder
    frippery, baggage.]
    1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to
    pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to
    plunder travelers.

    Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. --South.

    2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy
    plundered all the goods they found.

    Syn: To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob.


    Plunder \Plun"der\, n.
    1. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of
    {Pillage}.

    Inroads and plunders of the Saracens. --Sir T.
    North.

    2. That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage;
    spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.
    ``He shared in the plunder.'' --Cowper.

    3. Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang,
    Southwestern U.S.]

    1. They can no longer blithely plunder our psyches for their subject-matter'. In spite of her fame and success, Jong still presents herself as something of an outsider.
    2. While allowing out-of-state industry to plunder its vast natural resources, in exchange for picking up the tax bill, Louisiana tolerated environmental savagery.
    3. Is it surprising, then, that in our time there is so little restraint on behavior, that our streets are not safe to walk upon, or that we plunder nature for present pleasure with so little thought of what we do tomorrow?
    4. They would ingratiate themselves with travelers, then strangle them with a noose or handkerchief to plunder their belongings.
    5. First, a company hit by tougher trading conditions may resort to fraud to prop itself up - the motive widely ascribed to the late Robert Maxwell for his decision to plunder his companies' pension schemes.
    6. Khashoggi, who is being tried in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, is charged with having helped Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos plunder the Philippine treasury.
    7. Tehran radio in Iran said the "true rulers" of the United States pursues "suppression and plunder" of the Third World whether the president is a Republican or Democrat.
    8. Four years after Ferdinand Marcos' ouster from power and six months after his death, his widow goes to trial this week for her role in the alleged plunder of millions of dollars from the Philippine treasury.
    9. He repeated his claim that the federal government wants to oust him and other tribal leaders so it can plunder the natural resources on reservations.
    10. Also named as defendants are three former savings-and-loan executives accused of buying and selling junk bonds at Mr. Milken and other Drexel employees' bidding, in exchange for a share "in the plunder of their respective institutions."
    11. In a country where armies often have attracted riffraff interested primarily in rape and plunder, the army of revolutionary leader Mao Tse-tung went to great effort to serve the people and treat them decently.
    12. They plunder its foreign reserves, carry away its tax loopholes and feast midst the spoil of its cities, leading lives of aristocratic indulgence unhampered by noblesse oblige.
    13. Switzerland received the formal U.S. request Wednesday for extradition of Adnan Khashoggi, the jailed Saudi financier and arms dealer accused of helping Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos plunder the Philippines.
    14. Poverty, desperation and ignorance cause ecological plunder, he says, but greed and extravagance cause much more.
    15. Khashoggi, who had been a fugitive until his arrest in Switzerland on April 18, is charged with helping Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in the alleged plunder of the Philippines government treasury.
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