pillage

英 ['pɪlɪdʒ] 美['pɪlɪdʒ]

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第三人称单数: pillages;过去式: pillaged;过去分词: pillaged;现在分词: pillaging;名词: pillager;

1. pile => pillage.
2. 雁过拔毛。拿起长枪、长矛、标枪进行抢劫。
3. 所谓皮毛、皮毛，皮之不存毛将焉附。

pillage 抢劫

来自古法语pilage,抢劫，来自拉丁语pilare,扯住头发，剥皮，来自pilus,头发，毛发，词源同pile,depilatory.

2. the act of stealing valuable things from a place;: "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors"

pillage: pillage: [14] The origins of pillage are disputed. It comes from Old French pillage, a derivative of piller ‘plunder’, but there the consensus breaks down. Some say that piller (which also meant ‘tear up’) was based on pille ‘rag, cloth’, which may have been descended from Latin pilleus ‘felt cap’; others that it came from a Vulgar Latin verb *pīliāre, a derivative of Latin pīlum ‘javelin’ (source of English pile ‘supporting stake’); and others again that it came from Latin pilāre ‘remove hair’ (source of English peel [13], which originally meant ‘plunder’), a derivative of pilus ‘hair’ (source of English pile ‘nap’), in which case it would be roughly parallel in inspiration to colloquial English fleece ‘rob’.
pillage (n.): late 14c., "act of plundering" (especially in war), from Old French pilage (14c.) "plunder," from pillier "to plunder, loot, ill-treat," possibly from Vulgar Latin *piliare "to plunder," probably from a figurative use of Latin pilare "to strip of hair," perhaps also meaning "to skin" (compare figurative extension of verbs pluck, fleece), from pilus "a hair" (see pile (n.3)).
pillage (v.): "plunder, despoil," 1590s, from pillage (n.). Related: Pillaged; pillaging. The earlier verb in English was simply pill (late Old English), which probably is from Latin pilare.

[不可数名词]They brought back horrific accounts of murder and pillage.: 他们带回了残杀掳掠的可怕消息。

Soldiers went on a rampage, pillaging stores and shooting.: 士兵们横冲直撞，洗劫商店并且开枪射击。

If we pull legions from the west, the Goths will pillage us instead.: 如果我们把西线的军团调到这里,抢劫我们的将换成高斯人.

The transfer of power in 1947 was accompanied by slaughter and pillage of huge proportions.: 1947年的权力转移是伴随着屠杀大面积掠夺而来.

Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the scottish border for protection from pillage.: 勒索贡物从前为防止海盗抢劫,沿苏格兰边境向海盗上贡之物.

Eighteen shillings a month, together with diet and pillage.: 月饷十八先令, 加上伙食和战利品.

The rape and pillage of the east was a terrible crime.: 对东部(国家)的强劫和掠夺是臭名昭著的罪行.

The sense of wrongs, the injustices, the oppression, extortion, and pillage of twenty years suddenly and found voice in a raucous howl of execration.: 二十年来所深受的损害、压迫、勒索、掠夺和不公平的对待，一下子达到了最高峰，在一阵粗声粗气的谩骂叫嚣里发泄出来。