| 词汇 | buccaneer |
| 释义 | buccaneer noun[ C ] uk /ˌbʌk.əˈnɪər/ us /ˌbʌk.əˈnɪr/ a person who attacked and stole from ships at sea, especially someone allowed by a government to do this in the 17th and 18th centuries（尤指17和18世纪的）海盗 Compare piratenoun privateer Renaissance: 1501 to 1899 ancien régime auto-da-fé bustle Carolean Caroline enlightenment Industrial Revolution Jacobean Marian Pre-Raphaelite privateer reformation regency renaissance the First Fleet the Wild West Tory Victorian Victoriana Whig As soon as night had fallen the buccaneers weighed anchor. But the difficulty has been to define the exact meaning of a pirate and of a buccaneer. The buccaneers of the olden days were certainly men of the greatest bravery. There was a buccaneer ship about to sail from Jamaica, and on this Morgan enlisted. This, of course, the citizens were glad enough to do, and when the buccaneers had carried to the ships everything they had stolen, and when the beef had been put on board, they sailed away. buccaneer | Business Englishbuccaneer noun[ C ] uk /ˌbʌkəˈnɪər/us a business person who is determined to succeed even if this involves taking big risks: These mercantile buccaneers are always wildly in favour of the free market. Examples of buccaneerbuccaneer I think the critics and speakers were rather charged on a previous occasion with being buccaneers, with plunging rather too violently into the subject. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the future we hope we will continue to be something of pirates, something of buccaneers, something of blockade runners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In practice what have the private enterprise buccaneers to offer in the years ahead? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Above all, we have to stop this fragmented and at times buccaneering approach in our civil air transport industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then we would have a nation of buccaneers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is more difficult is for people such as myself to say that he is any worse than any of the other predators or buccaneers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The carpet-baggers and the buccaneers would be in and huge fortunes would be made by individuals and corporate bodies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The buccaneers of today are not going to sponsor that kind of buccaneering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those who knew him knew that he was a buccaneer, not a bureaucrat. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Certainly we did not go about it in the manner of international buccaneers on the high seas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some of them, it is true, were called "buccaneers ". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it comes true, if they remain buccaneers and pirates in this sense, they have a very great future. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he keep a sharp eye on the buccaneers—until recently anonymous buccaneers—who bought the property? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Scarcely a week goes by without news of housewives being robbed by these door-to-door buccaneers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If any financial buccaneer had so rigged the market in his favour he would today be in goal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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