| 单词 | pirate |
| 释义 | pirate (paɪrət ) Word forms: pirates , pirating , pirated 1. countable noun B1+ Pirates are sailors who attack other ships and steal property from them. In the nineteenth century, pirates roamed the seas. Synonyms: buccaneer, raider, rover, filibuster 2. countable noun You can refer to someone who behaves in an immoral or illegal way as a pirate. Of course I knew Max was a rogue, a bit of a pirate. 3. verb Someone who pirates films, books, files, or computer programs copies and sells them when they have no right to do so. He was accused of pirating music, movies and other web material. [VERB noun] ...American manufacturers who've seen their designs pirated in other countries. [VERB noun] Synonyms: copy, steal, reproduce, bootleg pirated adjective They had modified their consoles to play pirated games. A pirated edition of the book was published in August 1986. 4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A pirate version of something is an illegal copy of it. Pirate copies can be downloaded easily. Collocations: pirate costume Arrive in your best pirate costume to get in the swashbuckling spirit. Times, Sunday Times Dressed in a pirate costume, she served as the official hostess for the exposition. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Brad quits his next job because of the humiliation of having to wear a pirate costume when delivering food. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They seem to look extra small, stumbling a little in their baggy pirate costumes. Times, Sunday Times It was declared a pirate station under an act of parliament in 1967 and paved the way for modern pop radio. Times, Sunday Times This event marked the end of his involvement with the pirate station. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Earl stayed with the pirate station until the spring of 1966. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Or when she used to wrap her radio aerial with foil to pick up the pirate stations that played her songs. The Sun Some 150 pirate stations operate across our big cities, claiming 16 per cent of the audience in the capital. Times, Sunday Times Here he entertained them with curry lunches and stories of buried pirate treasure. Times, Sunday Times Pick-and-mix metallics will be the new order, silver will stage a comeback, and we can style them all together, like pirate treasure. Times, Sunday Times Metal bins collecting the cascades of shiny metal are filling up like pirate treasure chests. The Sun They must find all four kinds of pirate treasure to win. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Max wants to make it a pirate treasure hunt. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The pirate vessel followed him for two days, waiting for him to make a mistake. Times, Sunday Times Starker took control of the pirate vessel, captured the pirates, and collected a bounty on them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The pirate vessel was badly damaged in the maneuver, and was captured. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This allows a tanker to identify potential pirate vessels by monitoring their behaviour. Times, Sunday Times However, the pirate vessels are expected to be quickly replaced. Times, Sunday Times There were both river and sea pirates 400 years ago, and their activities were treated as a business. The Times Literary Supplement On the other hand, space pirates may be modeled after stereotypical sea pirates. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most of the businesses here are owned by local people that were former sea pirates. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 海盗 Japanese: 海賊 |
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