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单词 robin hood
释义 rob·in hood
\|räbə̇n|hu̇d, sometimes -bəm|-\ noun
Usage: usually capitalized R&H
Etymology: Robin Hood, legendary English outlaw, hero of a cycle of ballads, first mentioned ab1377
1. : a person or group whose acts lie partly or wholly outside accepted standards of legality, morality, or propriety; especially : one that robs the wealthy to aid the needy
 < a kind of primitive and rather unscrupulous Robin Hood — taking from the rich to give to the poor and keeping undisclosed amounts for itself — J. Halero Ferguson >
2. : a spectacular hero
 < interstellar Robin Hoods … on rocket-motor bikes and space-sphere junkets — T.H.Robsjohn-Gibbings >
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