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If soldiers pillage a place in a war, they steal a great deal and do a great deal of damage — not one quiet theft, but a violent emptying of a town or a house. You also meet it as a noun: the pillage of the city. It belongs to history books and war reporting. It is more formal, a little heavier, than loot, which is the word people more often say. You would not use pillage for taking a , or for , or for pens at work. Those are small. Pillage is what an army does to a place.
掠奪、洗劫（戰爭裡搶光並破壞一個地方）
組成From Old French pillage, from piller (“to plunder”). That French verb probably comes from a Late Latin use of a verb related to Latin pilo (“to remove hair”), from pilus (“hair”) — as if you were plucking a place bare. The hair step is the scholarly guess; you cannot see it in the English word now.
同家族的字
- pillagera person who pillages
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pillageverb/ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/
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To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
- 1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued, Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.
- So far as Pridger was concerned the game was up. He had cooked the buying, he had cooked the selling, he had systematically pillaged the stock.
pillagenoun/ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/
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The spoils of war.
- Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
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The act of pillaging.
- An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。