| 英语单词 | booty |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['buːti] 美 ['buːti] |
| 中文释义 | n.战利品;赃物;奖励 n.<俚>臀部 |
| 英语例句 | (1) They handed in their war booty to their leader. (2) She couldn't wait to get her booty home and try it on. (3) The bandits divided up the booty. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他们把战利品上缴给了上级。 (2) 她迫不及待地要把战利品带回家试穿。 (3) 强盗们平分赃物。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Booty is treasure — money, jewels, and the like — obtained by criminal means, especially plundering or pillaging. If you're in the Caribbean on vacation, you could spend some time looking for buried pirate booty. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Although booty originally meant stolen goods from war or pirating activities, the term is now sometimes used more generically to mean any riches or treasure. Although you may feel as though you plundered your own bank account to buy new clothes for yourself, all the booty you brought home from the mall might make you decide that it was worth it. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]赃物;(尤指)战利品 Booty is a collection of valuable things stolen from a place, especially by soldiers after a battle.
2 屁股 Someone's booty is their bottom. [INFORMAL 非正式] [RUDE 无礼] |
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