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brigand

/brig-uhnd/US // ˈbrɪg ənd //UK // (ˈbrɪɡənd) //

山贼,马贼,山寨货,山寨版

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.

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Examples

  • Men who had fled other camps and been set upon by brigands had been known to beg the nearest Ottoman official they could find to take them back.

  • The Spaniards, indeed, feigned to regard them only as a remnant of the rebels who had joined the pre-existing brigand bands.

  • This was the flourishing time of the notorious Fra Diavolo, who began as brigand and blossomed into a patriot.

  • In the East the brigand has had a freer scope, and has even founded kingdoms.

  • The patriot band attracts the brigand proper, who is not averse to continue his old courses under an honourable pretext.

  • A Kurdish brigand chief with a large banking account in England sounds a wildly impossible conception.