marauder
/muh-raw-der/US // məˈrɔ dər //
掠夺者,劫掠者,劫匪,强盗
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n.名词 noun
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- : someone who travels around plundering or pillaging: China built its famous Great Wall to keep out marauders from the steppes.
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Last month, a new marauder descended on Nineveh and the nearby city of Mosul.
In a live TV interview the prime minister called the demonstrators “çapulcu,” which means “looter” or “marauder” in Turkish.
Their wings cuffed the marauder's head in a fashion that confused him.
One would have supposed that the inhabitants of a castle so fortified might defy the attack of an insect marauder.
Climbing upon the bars, he yelled furiously at the 70 marauder, expecting to see him vanish like a red streak.
He was quite unreasonably glad when the plans for a concerted campaign against the marauder so suddenly fell through.
To make things worse, this long-flanked, long-jawed marauder was no less cunning than fierce.
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