Plunder

(verb.) steal goods; take as spoils; 'During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners'.

格罗夫斯整理

• Alcibiades would like nothing better than an excuse to plunder Melnos. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• They begin to develop a warmer interest in their personal leaders, who secure them pay and plunder. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The idea was that one of you was to marry her, and the other have a share of the plunder. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• You fled to the Continent with your plunder the next morning! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Of course, if they had been merely after plunder they would at least have made some attempt to search for it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I never resist a temptation to plunder a stranger's premises without feeling insufferably vain about it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The king relied on his army, and this was usually a mercenary army of foreigners, speedily mutinous if there was no pay or plunder, and easily bribed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• From what we know of mankind, we are bound to conclude that the first sailors plundered when they could, and traded when they had to. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The wealth of the burghers never failed to provoke their envy and indignation, and they plundered them upon every occasion without mercy or remorse. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Josiah Bounderby of Coketown is not to be plundered and nobody suspected. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Ye have plundered my mails--torn my cope of curious cut lace, which might have served a cardinal! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The great church of Saint Sophia which Justinian the Great had built (532) was plundered of its treasures and turned at once into a mosque. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Anatolian peninsula had been ploughed and harrowed by the Persian armies; the great cities had been plundered and sacked. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is certain that he who robs another of his moral reputation, more richly merits a gibbet than if he had plundered him of his purse on the highway. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• In 321 A.D. the Goths were again over the Danube, plundering what is now Serbia and Bulgaria. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• All the arguments urged in favour of negro slavery are applied with equal force to justify the plundering and enslaving of Europeans. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The transition to the sport of window-breaking, and thence to the plundering of public-houses, was easy and natural. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It was Alexander who was outraging and plundering and enslaving all Thebes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Verily, what with tainting, plundering, and spoiling, Tom has his revenge. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In each case there was a massacre, the plundering of the city, and the selling of the survivors into slavery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Caliphronas is a picturesque freebooter, and simply plunders on a large scale. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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