| 词汇 | example_english_plunder |
| 释义 | Examples of plunderThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The more familiar colonial strategy of conquest and plunder always loomed in the background as perhaps an easier option. If it was harvest time, they stole the corn; and if alms were refused, they punished the owners by plundering their granaries at night. Over generations the plunder of this resource has severely depleted natural stocks. Often there is a need to give something back to an environment; a reciprocal relationship, not simply a one-way plunder. Looters can use the cleared areas as easy access to plunder the ruins. Poligars derived their revenue partly from plunder and partly from land rents and duties. In their absence, their house was plundered of everything. Memory cannot always be a sanctuary, for others force their way in and plunder its images. Conversely, was plunder the only motivator for the urban "nobility" of the oases towns and tribes of the peninsula? The only possible recourse is to wholesale coinage (starting with the titular category itself) and plunder (from classical rhetoric, speech-act theory, structuralism, deconstruction). The desire for plunder as a motive for war is not to be underestimated. Well-stocked shops ran the risk of being plundered, and traders ran the risk of being attacked if they travelled to villages without a military convoy. Environmentalists fear that high indebtedness induces developing countries to plunder their natural resources and engage in unsustainable resource harvesting. In fourteen years of plunder and repression, every significant political and civic institution had been demeaned or destroyed. The thugs' neighbours did after all share in the plunder and wealth they brought into the community, directly or indirectly. Archives constituted a small percentage of the overall cultural plunder. Episodes of courage are not as plentifully recorded as episodes of flight, confusion, loitering, and plunder. The house was ransacked and plundered, the family vault in the church desecrated. They had no military training but a keen desire for headhunting and plunder. In this region the opportunities for plunder and trade probably outweighed wage incentives. Barristers plundered the facts of their cases to make this argument. Plunder was the motive for some of these attacks. And most radically, 'spaces' are plundered and remixed in the dance techno world. It was not just the objects that were plundered, so too was the identity of the indigenous people. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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