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单词 piratical
释义
piratical
adjective
formal
uk
/paɪˈræt.ɪ.kəl/us
/paɪˈræt̬.ɪ.kəl/
typicalof orrelatingto apirate(= apersonwhoattacksshipsinordertostealfrom them):
海盗的，海盗般的
He nowworea piraticalblackeyepatchafter anoperation.手术后，他现在像海盗那样戴了一个黑眼罩。
They havefailedtopreventthepresenthighlevelof piraticalattacksonseamen.对于现今频频发生的海盗袭击船员事件，他们无能为力。
See
pirate
More examples
  • Theyscannedthehorizonfor theskullandcrossbonesand othersignsof piraticalactivity.
  • He hadnearlybeencapturedby alargeand well-armed piraticalvessel.
  • He's aniceman, for all his piraticallooksand amissingfronttooth.
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  • job
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(Definition ofpiraticalfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpiratical

piratical
No doubt some of your contributors or readers can chart the course of thispiraticalvoyage.
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There are the fitting yards where these, dastardly andpiraticalsubmarines return for repairs and revictualment.
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They have complained more than once of the effect ofpiraticalbroadcasting on their own wavelengths, on their own transmissions.
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The convention is not the product of apiraticalor exploitative design by a series of rapacious mining companies.
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However, it should be realised that thispiraticaldamage is not only restricted to developed countries but is also to be found in developing countries.
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There have beenpiraticaloperations going on for some time.
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There have beenpiraticaloperations going on, carried out by the gunboats and other warships manned by the rebels.
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They have also drawn attention, with the grim tales ofpiraticalattacks, to the plight and vulnerability of those fleeing from oppression.
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She was not carrying contraband or running any blockade, and in the absence of the granting of belligerent rights her seizure waspiratical.
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It is a verypiraticalthing to do, if he will forgive me for saying so.
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They arepiratical; they are illegal, unrecognised and contrary to the law of nations.
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They fear that the publishers may avoid all responsibility for the deliberate wrongdoings of theirpiraticalauthors.
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But bids and counter bids, plots and counter plots, predatory andpiraticalraids and forays are manifestly not the way to go about it.
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I have no doubt thepiraticalinstincts of some of the islands are still active.
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The rate book has been pretty well destroyed already bypiraticalhauliers who have very little regard for any principles.
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