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单词 piratical
释义
piratepi‧rate1 /ˈpaɪərət $ ˈpaɪrət/ ●○○ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINpirate1
Origin:
1200-1300 Latin pirata, from Greek peirates, from peiran ‘to attack’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A two-hour boat trip will take you to Lundy Island, once famous for its pirates and now for its puffins.
  • But there may be pirates hiding among them.
  • Happy Computing could have its own problem with pirates.
  • Instead, park officials announced Friday, the pirates will run after women who carry trays of food.
  • Monarchs pretended to close their eyes to it while they shared the loot and then honored the pirate heroes.
  • More pirates were starting to climb into the stockade.
  • Terror-stricken, the pirates ordered the helmsman to put in to land.
  • Will convinces the pair not to eat them, but instead join forces in the hunt for the pirates and their captives.
Thesaurus
THESAURUSdifferent types of criminal
someone who steals things: · Car thieves have been working in the area.· The thieves stole over £5,000 worth of jewellery.
someone who steals money or valuable things from a bank, shop etc – used especially when someone sees the person who is stealing: · a masked robber armed with a shotgun· They were the most successful bank robbers in US history.
someone who goes into people’s homes in order to steal: · The burglars broke in through a window.
someone who takes things from shops without paying for them: · The cameras have helped the store catch several shoplifters.
someone who steals things from people’s pockets, especially in a crowd: · A sign warned that pickpockets were active in the station.
someone who deceives people in order to get money or things: · Conmen tricked the woman into giving them her savings, as an ‘investment’.
someone who illegally copies official documents, money, artworks etc: · a forger who fooled museum curators
someone who illegally copies money, official documents, or goods: · Counterfeiters in Colombia are printing almost perfect dollar bills.
someone who illegally copies and sells another person’s work: · DVD pirates
someone who attacks and robs people in public places: · Muggers took his money and mobile phone.
someone who deliberately kills someone else: · His murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment.· the murderer of civil rights activist Medgar Evers· He is a mass murderer (=someone who kills a large number of people).
someone who kills several people, one after the other over a period of time, in a similar way: · Shipman was a trusted family doctor who became Britain's worst serial killer.
someone who forces someone else to have sex: · Some rapists drug their victims so that they become unconscious.
someone who is guilty of a crime related to sex: · Too many sex offenders are released from prison early.
someone who deliberately damages public property: · Vandals broke most of the school’s windows.
someone who deliberately sets fire to a building: · The warehouse fire may have been the work of an arsonist.
Longman Language Activatora copy of something that is intended to deceive people
an illegal copy of something official such as a bank note, legal documentation or work of art : · Three paintings now thought to be forgeries are included in the show· Further investigation showed that the so-called "Hitler Diaries" were a forgery.
made to look like the product of a particular company or the work of a particular artist in order to trick people in to buying them: · They were selling fake Rolex watches on the street.· His I.D. is obviously fake.
counterfeit money looks exactly like real money but has been produced illegally: · Police have warned stores to look out for counterfeit $50 bills.
British /pirated especially American: pirate copies/videos/CDs copies of books, records, films etc that have been made illegally and are sold without the permission of the people who originally produced them: · The government has closed a factory that was producing pirate CDs.· It's pretty easy to get pirated copies of the software.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· That's our very own pirate radio.· Unfortunately Phil had unwittingly chosen a bad time to clash with the pirate radio vessel.
· Then, by a very unlucky chance, we were seen and chased by two pirate ships.· Often George came in at five o'clock in the morning to hammer away at the pirate ship in the carpenter's shop.· He had heard reports of a pirate ship in Black Hill Cove and had come looking for the pirates.· Oo ar, Jim me lad, it's cut-and-thrust duelling on board the pirate ship Corky!
· The pirate station, which ran aground last November, is using equipment and records donated by listeners.· Illegal pirate stations, operating on locally-free channels and low-power transmitters already fill part of this gap.· All pirate stations, such as ours, have to close at the end of December.
· Time allowed 00:21 Read in studio Detectives have seized around five hundred suspected pirate videos in a joint operation with copyright investigators.· More than 1, 000 pirate videos and 63 video recorders were also seized.· Inside the home were pirate videos, hundreds of blank cassettes and cassette casings, they said.· The agency has maintained an anti-piracy hotline and offers $ 2, 500 for information that leads to a pirate video lab.· About a third of all pirate video raids are discovered through the hotline, she said.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • That's our very own pirate radio.
  • Unfortunately Phil had unwittingly chosen a bad time to clash with the pirate radio vessel.
1someone who sails on the seas, attacking other boats and stealing things from them → piracy2someone who dishonestly copies and sells another person’s work → piracy:  Computer game pirates cost the industry twenty million pounds a year.pirate videos/CDs/software etc3pirate radio/TV (station) illegal radio or television broadcasts, or the station sending them out—piratical /paɪˈrætɪkəl, pə-/ adjective literary
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