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mercenary

/mur-suh-ner-ee/US // ˈmɜr səˌnɛr i //UK // (ˈmɜːsɪnərɪ, -sɪnrɪ) //

雇佣兵,雇佣军,市侩,自私自利的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
    • : hired to serve in a foreign army, guerrilla organization, etc.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mer·ce·nar·ies.

    • : a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.
    • : any hireling.

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Examples

  • Her portrayal as a battle-hardened mercenary was met with positive reviews, with many lauding her on-screen performance as an inspiration for young women.

  • Zambernardi also controlled a team of mercenaries he called Rudos—“tough guys”—from Mexico’s corrupt and violent Federal Judicial Police.

  • Saudi Arabia and the UAE have outsourced their fighting in Yemen and Libya to brutal mercenaries of the Darfur civil war.

  • His second-in-command was the marechal, who was responsible for paying the mercenaries, organizing the fighting divisions and playing his supervisory role in regards to the discipline and equipment of the army.

  • Some of these mercenaries were basically employed knights, who lacked fiefs, and thus were paid salaries by their overlords.

  • As a former agent himself, Horrigan hopes to disabuse renters of the notion that brokers are mercenary con artists.

  • “I did not have enough money to bribe the judge, so I decided to become a mercenary,” Mozhayev told a local reporter.

  • The scene ends with a Street Fighter-like battle between Captain America and a mercenary.

  • By mid-to-late evening, there was overwhelming evidence that Russia was using a mix of mercenary and conscript forces.

  • A dreamy, blue-eyed rebel is approached by a mercenary wearing a scary mask.

  • Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace and among a free people.

  • If all the world did not wag his way, so much the worse for cold-blooded mercenary superfluous beings.

  • But this pious reverence gave place to a more mercenary spirit, and the trade in relics became a traffic of infamy and disgrace.

  • It is perhaps something of a surprise to find him a mercenary in seventeenth-century Holland; but the old touch is there.

  • The first were large bands of discharged mercenary soldiers who pillaged the country.