bootlegger
bootlegger ['bu:t,legə]
n. 造私酒者；走私者
名词复数:bootleggers
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- n. 造私酒者；走私者
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1. She was a bootlegger in a little county up in the state of Washington.
那会儿，她在华盛顿州的一个小郊县倒腾私酒。
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2. The East Indian Gotheborg despite its claim of never trafficking opium to China, was actually the initiatory bootlegger.
“哥德堡”号商船的主人瑞典东印度公司，虽然号称从未向中国贩运过鸦片，但其实是中国贩运鸦片的始作俑者。
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3. "I'll still love you whichever choice you make, " his father, the bootlegger, wrote.
“不论你做了哪种选择，我仍将爱你，”他贩私酒的父亲这样写道。
- bootlegger (n.) also boot-legger, 1889, from bootleg (q.v.). The word enjoyed great popularity in the U.S. during Prohibition (1920-1933), and the abstracted element -legger was briefly active in word-formation, e.g. meatlegger during World War II rationing, booklegger for those who imported banned titles such as "Ulysses."
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