reave

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

這個字我們還沒有寫成教學內容。以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,方便你先看懂它的意思。

reaveverb詞源 1/ɹiːv/

  • 1

    archaicTo plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.

    • And I for one am not convinced of the innocence of the model: it is as if we let a criminal make up the law as he or she ambles along, reaving right and left.
  • 2

    archaicTo deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.

    • Few of the chroniclers of Nero’s reign have been accurate when relating the situation that obtained between the Emperor and his mother from the time when, reft of her German and Pannonian guards, she lived in a more or less solitary rage on one estate or another.

reaveverb詞源 2/ɹiːv/

  • 1

    archaicTo split, tear, break apart.

    • There was the same enforced composure on her face, that there had been when she was dressing; and the wreath upon her head encircled the same cold and steady brow. But it would have been better to have seen its leaves and flowers reft into fragments by her passionate hand, […]

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