词汇 | pillage |
释义 | pillageWord family nounpillingpillboxpillheadpillwormpillwortpillagepillpillager pil·lage /ˈpɪlɪdʒ/ verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT] STEALif soldiers pillage a place in a war, they steal a lot of things and do a lot of damage 〔军队〕抢劫,劫掠,掠夺(某地) SYN plunder —pillage noun [uncountableU] —pillager noun [countableC] Examples from the Corpus pillage• A horde of Goblins under Grom the Paunch pillaged eastern Ulthuan.• Reims suffered four sieges in sixty years, Épernay was pillaged half a dozen times and burnt twice.• It might have been better had they looted, pillaged, raped, and left.• Its aim is no longer to pillage the wild for man's use, but to protect what remains against domestication.• In 1498, Vasco da Gama pursued and pillaged them. (1300-1400) French piller “to rob” |
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