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galleon

/gal-ee-uhn, gal-yuhn/US // ˈgæl i ən, ˈgæl yən //UK // (ˈɡælɪən) //

大帆船,加隆号,加隆,加龙

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large sailing vessel of the 15th to the 17th centuries used as a fighting or merchant ship, square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and generally lateen-rigged on one or two after masts.

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  • Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the hedge fund Galleon Group, pursued a Wall Street lifestyle.

  • Yet, as the Gupta defense contended, Gupta ended up losing $10 million with Galleon.

  • With Galleon buying millions of shares, the price of Hilton stock moved up that day much more than it would have otherwise.

  • Not long after that call, Galleon bought more than 80,000 shares of Goldman Sachs.

  • “Less than a minute after the call began,” says the SEC, Galleon bought 40,000 more Goldman shares.

  • She is as white as the sail of the treasure-laden galleon as it enters the harbor of Cadiz.

  • And at the trail's end the unkempt, ribald crew swarmed their dark and dirty camp as a band of pirates a galleon.

  • If we shoaled the water much more we could not hope to force the heavy galleon through.

  • While we were endeavouring to repair the damage it fell a stark calm, and the old galleon began to roll away awfully in the swell.

  • I did not flatter myself so much because of my own merits, as on account of the richly-freighted old galleon.