[N-COUNT 可数名词]海盗;海上劫掠者Pirates are sailors who attack other ships and steal property from them.
In the nineteenth century, pirates roamed the seas.
19世纪时海盗猖獗。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]道德败坏者;违法者 You can refer to someone who behaves in an immoral or illegal way as a pirate .
Of course I knew Max was a rogue, a bit of a pirate.
我当然知道麦克斯是个无赖,是个小流氓。
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[VERB 动词]非法复制及出售(录像带、录音带、书籍、计算机程序等) Someone who pirates video tapes, cassettes, books, or computer programs copies and sells them when they have no right to do so.
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A school technician pirated anything from video nasties to computer games.
学校的一名技术人员做盗版,从黄色录像到计算机游戏什么都有。
...American manufacturers who've seen their designs pirated in other countries.
见过自己的设计在其他国家遭到盗版的美国制造商
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Pirated copies of music tapes are flooding the market...
盗版音乐带正充斥市场。
A pirated edition of the book was published in August 1986.
这本书的一个盗版版本在1986年8月出版。
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[ADJ 形容词]盗版的;盗用的;剽窃的 A pirate version of something is an illegal copy of it.
[ADJ n]
Pirate copies of the video are already said to be in Britain.
该录像带的盗版版本据说已在英国出现。
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pir·ate/ˈpaɪrət; NAmEˈpaɪrət/
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piratepiratespiratedpiratingnoun1(especially in the past) a person on a ship who attacks other ships at sea in order to steal from them (尤指旧时的)海盗◆a pirate ship海盗船2( often used as an adjective 常用作形容词) a person who makes illegal copies of DVDs, computer programs, books, etc, in order to sell them 盗版者;盗印者◆a pirate edition盗版◆software pirates软件盗版者3( often used as an adjective 常用作形容词) a person or an organization that broadcasts illegally 非法播音的人(或组织)◆a pirate radio station非法电台☞see also
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▶pir·at·ical/ˌpaɪˈrætɪkl; NAmEˌpaɪˈrætɪkl/adjectiveverbpiratesth to copy and use or sell sb's work or a product without permission and without having the right to do so 盗印;窃用◆pirated computer games盗版电脑游戏pir·ate/ˈpaɪrət; NAmEˈpaɪrət/pir·at·ical/ˌpaɪˈrætɪkl; NAmEˌpaɪˈrætɪkl/
1someone who sails on the seas, attacking other boats and stealing things from them → piracy2someone who dishonestly copies and sells another person’s work → piracy: Computer game pirates cost the industry twenty million pounds a year.pirate videos/CDs/software etc3pirate radio/TV (station) illegal radio or television broadcasts, or the station sending them out—piratical /paɪˈrætɪkəl, pə-/ adjective literary
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to illegally copy and sell another person’s work such as a book, DVD, or computer program: pirated copies of the best-selling computer games► see thesaurus at
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