booty
- n. 戰(zhàn)利品;贓物;獲得之物
- n. (Booty)人名;(英)布蒂
中文詞源
原指獎(jiǎng)賞,詞源不詳。詞義受boot(益處)影響。詞義由獎(jiǎng)賞到戰(zhàn)利品可參照英法16,17世紀(jì)官方文件letter of marque, 私掠許可證。當(dāng)時(shí)英法政府為發(fā)展海上力量,打擊對(duì)方,鼓勵(lì)民船海盜船可以對(duì)過往商船進(jìn)行合法搶劫,所掠財(cái)物部分作為獎(jiǎng)賞。
英文詞源
- booty
- booty: [15] Booty has no connection with boots. It came into English as butin (it did not finally lose its n until the 18th century), a borrowing from Old French butin, but Old French had got it from Middle Low German būte ‘exchange’ (whence German beute and Dutch buit ‘loot’), pointing to a prehistoric Germanic source *būtiōn.
=> filibuster, freebooter - booty (n.)
- "plunder, gain, profit," mid-15c., from Old French butin "booty" (14c.), from a Germanic source akin to Middle Low German bute "exchange." Influenced in form and sense by boot (n.2) and in form by nouns ending in -y. Meaning "female body considered as a sex object" is 1920s, black slang.
雙語例句
- 1. Troops destroyed the capital and confiscated many works of art as war booty.
- 軍隊(duì)摧毀了這座都城,并把大量藝術(shù)品收繳為戰(zhàn)利品。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. It is impossible yet to estimate booty and war material capured.
- 現(xiàn)在還不可能估算繳獲的戰(zhàn)利品和軍用物質(zhì)的數(shù)字.
來自辭典例句
- 3. I made booty of a good radio.
- 我得到一個(gè)好收音機(jī).
來自辭典例句
- 4. The bandits divided up the booty.
- 強(qiáng)盜們平分贓物.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Don't play booty with me.
- 別在我面前?;ㄕ?
來自辭典例句