marauding

英 [məˈrɔːdɪŋ]

美 [məˈrɔːdɪŋ]

adj.  (到处)抢劫的，打劫的，劫掠的
v.  战时侵入敌方掠夺、抢劫或搜寻战利品; 抢劫，掳掠，攫夺
maraud的现在分词

现在分词：marauding　

BNC.20039 / COCA.24688

牛津词典

adj.

• （到处）抢劫的，打劫的，劫掠的
  going around a place in search of things to steal or people to attack
  1. marauding wolves
     到处猎食的狼群

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (人)四处劫掠的;(动物)四处攫食的
  If you talk aboutmaraudinggroups of people or animals, you mean they are unpleasant and dangerous, because they wander around looking for opportunities to steal or kill.
  1. Marauding gangs of armed men have been looting food relief supplies.
     持械抢劫团伙一直在四处抢劫救济食品。
  2. ...safe from danger, such as marauding wild animals.
     远离了诸如觅食野兽之类的危险

英英释义

adj

• characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
  1. bands of marauding Indians
  2. predatory warfare
  3. a raiding party
  Synonym:predatoryraiding

双语例句

• Beatings, looting and arson by marauding militias have created an atmosphere of fear and insecurity.
  这些民兵盗匪在村落里打人、抢劫和纵火，制造了恐慌不安的气氛。
• Everyone, whether in the country or the city, has been freed from fear of pillage and plunder by marauding troops.
  无论是在乡村还是在城市，人们都不用担心被军队抢劫。
• Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee star as a father and son who face starving stragglers and marauding packs of cannibals after a nuclear explosion destroys America.
  影片中维果·莫特森和柯蒂·斯密特-麦菲饰演了一对父子，在核爆炸摧毁了美国后，他们面临饥饿、迷失方向、被食人族袭击的故事。
• Humans who hunt in the Sunderbans must remain constantly alert for marauding tigers that attack from the water-the great predators sometimes kill people.
  在桑德班斯打猎的人必须随时提高警觉防从水里伺机攻击的老虎，因为这些大肉食动物有时会杀人。
• Even if you were one of the very few with the constitution to survive, there was a good chance that a raid by the French or marauding buccaneers would get you instead.
  即使你是依靠强壮的体质而活了下来的少数幸存者之一，你也极有可能遭到法国人的袭击或者遇到打劫的海盗。
• Rio, Ivanhoe and the hordes of other mining groups marauding over the steppe may want to see this as a piece of theatre.
  力拓、艾芬豪和其他在蒙古大草原上大肆劫掠的矿商们或许想要把这当成一场戏来看。
• Japan had tried the more brutish British method of marauding around the region in pursuit of an empire.
  日本追求帝国梦的过程与英国相似，也曾对周边地区大肆劫掠，而且手段更为野蛮。
• Then the Bosnians were overrun by marauding Serbs. Now Ukraine is buckling under the military might of a revanchist Russia.
  当时波斯尼亚人被四处劫掠的塞尔维亚人蹂躏，而如今的乌克兰则受到复仇的俄罗斯的军事力量的压迫。
• Within the next month, eleven people were killed in the near-by villages by marauding bands-bought soldiers, a few village leaders and the landlords in the Revenge Corps.
  在此后短短一个月的时间内，石壁村附近几个村子里，就有十一人惨遭“还乡团”的毒手。
• With a few taps at the command line, you can launch a Web site, recruit legions to your cause, or vanquish a marauding thunder lizard.
  只需在命令行上敲几下，就可以启动网站、招募军团或击败可怕的火龙。