词汇 | raiding |
释义 | raiding present participle ofraid raid verb[ T ] uk /reɪd/ us /reɪd/ C2 to attack a place suddenly: 突袭,突击 The nomads raided the enemy camp and captured over 100 camels.游牧部落突袭了敌人的营地,掠走了上百头骆驼。 to enter a place illegally and usually violently, and steal from it: 抢劫;洗劫;劫掠 The post office was raided late at night.昨晚深夜邮局遭到抢劫。 C2 (of the police) to enter a place suddenly in order to find someone or something: (警方)突击检查,突然搜查 Police officers from the organized crime division have raided businesses in central London.有组织犯罪调查处的警察已经突击搜查了位于伦敦中心的一些公司。 informal to take something from a place, usually secretly: (通常指偷偷地)从…把东西拿走,取走(某处的)东西 I caught Toby raiding the fridge.托比从冰箱里偷拿东西时被我撞上了。 Attacking & invading advance guard aggressor ambush beleaguer beleaguered besiege blitz cyberbullying cyberwarfare declare war on someone/something false flag full-frontal assault hit and run pincer movement post-attack post-conquest pre-emption privateer surgical strike swoop You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Arriving, entering and invading Stealing Detection & solving crimes Taking things away from someone or somewhere Examples of raidingraiding In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Indeed, these probably became even more prominent once military adventures and border raiding were no longer viable. Raiding and other outstanding phenomena in the behavior of army ants. Thus began the first influx of weaponry more lethal than the spears which had previously served as instruments of hunting and raiding. The 1890s were a period of devastating drought and epidemic, triggering a surge of raiding to reconstitute the herds. During a time when men were increasingly mobile - raiding, trading and hunting to compensate for drought and famine - women found themselves restricted to the home. Ngoreme elders set a much earlier date for their participation in raiding (c. 1880). Preservation of a precarious order, limiting cattle raiding and controlling the ivory trade were the primary goals. The peripheral zones of raiding and the domination of areas provided specific valuable resources destined for the court or long-distance export trade. Widespread famine resulted from the raiding of grain and livestock reserves. 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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