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From the word’s history

From Middle English pirate, from Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta, from Ancient Greek πειρατής, from πεῖρα 'trial, attempt'.

源自拉丁文 pīrāta，來自希臘文，字根 πεῖρα 是「嘗試」。

Wiktionary

You can picture someone helping themselves to what belongs to others in a place the law cannot easily reach: first on the open sea, pulling alongside another ship and carrying off its cargo. Everything else the word does keeps that same shape — taking what someone else made, without asking, outside the rules.

可以想成一幅海上的畫面：一艘船在公海上靠過來，人翻上甲板，把別人的貨搬走——而那裡沒有警察管得到。這個字後來走到哪裡，都還帶著這兩個要素：拿走別人的東西，而且是在規則管不到的地方拿。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

同家族的字

n pirates

v pirated pirated pirating pirates

意思相反

license

原始詞典資料13 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

Piratenoun

  • 1

    hobbieslifestylesportssomeone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the Pirates, as a fan, player, coach etc.

  • 2

    ball-gamesgameshobbiessomeone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the Pirates, as a fan, player, coach etc.

piratenoun/ˈpaɪɹət/

  • 1

    A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.

    • You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.
  • 2

    An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.

    • How did you do it? Have you searched for hidden treasure, or discovered a pole, or done time on a pirate, or flown the Channel, or what? Where is the glamour of romance? How did you get it?
    • The third day out a pirate (Terebinthian by her rig) overhauled us, but when she saw us well armed she stood off after some shooting of arrows on either part—
  • 3

    One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.

    • And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.
    • They had watches that said Gucci or Rolex on them even though it was obvious they'd come straight here from some pirate factory in China.
  • 4

    biologynatural-sciencesornithologyA bird which practises kleptoparasitism.

  • 5

    A kind of marble in children's games.

    • Most of the time it went fine; some of his classmates had so many marbles they could have opened up their own shop in smurfs, pirates, purple aggies and pink panthers.

pirateverb/ˈpaɪɹət/

  • 1

    To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.

    • They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
  • 2

    copyrightintellectual-propertylawTo create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.

    • If a book is pirated there is a remedy for the author and publisher; if a photograph or an engraving is made of a picture without permission the law protects the painter.
  • 3

    copyrightintellectual-propertylawTo knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.

    • Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
    • In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.
  • 4

    To engage in piracy.

    • He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.
  • 5

    To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.

pirateadj/ˈpaɪɹət/

  • 1

    Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.

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