buccaneer: [17] A buccaneer was originally ‘someone who dried meat on a wooden frame over a fire’. The word comes ultimately from mukem, the term for such a frame in the Tupi language of the Caribbean islands, which in the mouths of early French settlers became boucan (the Haitian term was barbacoa, from which we get barbecue). French boucanier thus came to be applied in the 17th century to a woodsman in the West Indies who prepared his food in such a way; such men were fairly lawless, and took to piratical ways, bringing their name with them in the late 17th century.
buccaneer (n.)
1660s, from French boucanier "user of a boucan," a native grill for roasting meat, from Tupi mukem (rendered in Portuguese as moquem c. 1587): "initial b and m are interchangeable in the Tupi language" [Klein]. For Haitian variant barbacoa, see barbecue. Originally used of French settlers working as hunters and woodsmen in the Spanish West Indies, a lawless and piratical set after they were driven from their trade by Spanish authorities in the 1690s.
雙語例句
1. The terror of the dead buccaneer had fallen on their spirits.
那具海盜的骷髏帶來的恐懼已經(jīng)影響了他們的情緒.
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2. The terror of the buccaneer had fallen on their spirits.
他們對死去的海盜頭子怕得要死,至今還心有余悸.
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3. Would she suddenly take to buccaneer boots , some totem - crested helm , long - bladed dirks and throwing knives?
她會不會突然喜歡上海盜靴 、 帶圖騰頂飾的帽子、帶長刃的匕首和扔飛刀?
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4. And gone was the gritty buccaneer look that so perfectly complemented his savage forehand.
再也看不到了,他那幅儼然剛硬海盜似的模樣,那種狂野的扮相是和他兇悍的正手很是相配.
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5. The Italian - flagged tugboat Buccaneer was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden on April 11.