英语词汇“to go upon the account”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(c) slang. to go upon the account and variants: to engage in piracy. Now historical.

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1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 221 The ships which lay by to the eastward were English, and..they were going upon the account, which by the Way, was a Sea Term for a Pyrate.

1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals I. 55 Some of the rest had form'd of seizing the Vessel, putting those to Death who refus'd to come into the Measures, and then to go, as the Sailors phrase it, upon the Account, that is in plain English, commence Pyrates.

1822 W. Scott Pirate II. ii. 30 Their ships, I suppose, were clumsy enough; but if it is true that they went upon the account as far as the Levant, I scarce believe that ever better fellows unloosed a top-sail.

1929 New Eng. Q. 2 658 One reads here first-hand accounts of adventure with the gentlemen who sailed ‘on the account’.

2004 M. Rediker Villains of all Nations ii. 37 He did not know..that the next ten years would be a ‘golden age’ of piracy. He did not know that thousands of people would go ‘upon the account’.

单词	to go upon the account
释义	> as lemmas to go upon the account (c) slang. to go upon the account and variants: to engage in piracy. Now historical. ΚΠ 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 221 The ships which lay by to the eastward were English, and..they were going upon the account, which by the Way, was a Sea Term for a Pyrate. 1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals I. 55 Some of the rest had form'd of seizing the Vessel, putting those to Death who refus'd to come into the Measures, and then to go, as the Sailors phrase it, upon the Account, that is in plain English, commence Pyrates. 1822 W. Scott Pirate II. ii. 30 Their ships, I suppose, were clumsy enough; but if it is true that they went upon the account as far as the Levant, I scarce believe that ever better fellows unloosed a top-sail. 1929 New Eng. Q. 2 658 One reads here first-hand accounts of adventure with the gentlemen who sailed ‘on the account’. 2004 M. Rediker Villains of all Nations ii. 37 He did not know..that the next ten years would be a ‘golden age’ of piracy. He did not know that thousands of people would go ‘upon the account’. extracted from accountn. < as lemmas
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