pillage
pillage 英 [ˈpɪlɪdʒ] 美 [ˈpɪlɪdʒ]
v. 掠夺；抢劫 n. 掠夺；掠夺物
进行时:pillaging 过去式:pillaged 过去分词:pillaged 第三人称单数:pillages 名词复数:pillages
- To pillage is a term of war that means to take everything of value from a place that you've conquered, but these days, pillage can be used to talk about anyone who takes what's not theirs.
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- v. 掠夺；抢劫
- n. 掠夺；掠夺物
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1. The rebels went looting and pillaging.
叛乱者趁火打劫，掠夺财物。
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2. The town had been pillaged and burned.
这座城镇被洗劫焚毁。
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3. Works of art were pillaged from churches and museums.
教堂和博物馆的艺术品被劫掠一空。
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4. They brought back horrific accounts of murder and pillage.
他们带回了残杀掳掠的可怕消息。
- pillage (n.) late 14c., "act of plundering" (especially in war), from Old French pilage (14c.) "plunder," from pillier "to plunder, loot, ill-treat," possibly from Vulgar Latin *piliare "to plunder," probably from a figurative use of Latin pilare "to strip of hair," perhaps also meaning "to skin" (compare figurative extension of verbs pluck, fleece), from pilus "a hair" (see pile (n.3)).
- pillage (v.) "plunder, despoil," 1590s, from pillage (n.). Related: Pillaged; pillaging. The earlier verb in English was simply pill (late Old English), which probably is from Latin pilare.
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