swashbuckler
/swosh-buhk-ler, swawsh-/US // ˈswɒʃˌbʌk lər, ˈswɔʃ- //UK // (ˈswɒʃˌbʌklə) //
掠夺者,霹雳游侠,侠客行,盗贼
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n.名词 noun
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- : a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
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Examples
He seemed not at all the image of the irresponsible swashbuckler I'd carried with me for so long.
A big swashbuckler of a man with a hard face, hard blue eyes with quizzical wrinkles around them.
He had plenty of wild, obscene wit, and early gained the reputation of being a swashbuckler.
When I came up I looked like a swashbuckler in one of Scudry's plays.
Cavalier in English was early applied in a contemptuous sense to an overbearing swashbuckler—a roisterer or swaggering gallant.
I felt that under the guise of an intellectual swashbuckler was a delicate and sensitive spirit.
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