pirating
/pahy-ruht/US // ˈpaɪ rət //UK // (ˈpaɪrɪt) //
盗版,盗版行为,盗用,剽窃
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n.名词 noun
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- : a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- : a ship used by such persons.
- : any plunderer, predator, etc.: confidence men, slumlords, and other pirates.
- : a person who uses or reproduces the work or invention of another without authorization.
- : Also called pirate stream .Geology. a stream that diverts into its own flow the headwaters of another stream, river, etc.
v.有主动词 verb
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pi·rat·ed, pi·rat·ing.
- : to commit piracy upon; plunder; rob.
- : to take by piracy: to pirate gold.
- : to use or reproduce without authorization or legal right: to pirate hit records.
- : to take or entice away for one's own use: Our competitor is trying to pirate our best salesman.
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Examples
Certain printers, however, made a practice of pirating some of the most popular English privileged books.
The good Major Bonnet has gone off pirating; he thinks he can make more money that way than by attending to his plantation.
With this small company he dared not go pirating on his own account and so had decided to rejoin Blackbeard.
Was America in the business of pirating around the shores of Europe to pick up islands, or promontories like Gibraltar?
He wished to go pirating again, and saw a way of doing this which he thought would be far superior to any of the common methods.
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