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单词 bushranger
释义

bushranger

/ˈbʊʃreɪn(d)ʒə /
noun
1US A person living far from civilization.American bushrangers advocate a long heavy pea-rifle, on the plea of its accurate shooting, and the enormous saving in weight of ammunition when bullets of a small size are used.
2Australian /NZ historical An outlaw living in the bush.The state was humiliated in the 1860s by a spectacular revival of bushranging, when bushrangers for the first time became national heroes, their exploits carried by telegraph and newspaper Australia-wide....
  • Like many bushrangers, he was Irish in origin, the son of a father with a lurid, criminal past, and a mother with a fiery temper, a taste for strong liquor and grizzled lovers.
  • The bushranger was hanged in Melbourne in 1880 after being captured in a shoot-out with police in the small town of Glenrowan, Victoria.
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