| 单词 | buccaneer |
| 释义 | buccaneer[,bʌkə'niə]n. 海盗vi. 做海盗 buccaneer buc.ca.neer AHD: [b¾k”…-nîr“] D.J. [7bJk*6n!*]K.K. [7bJk*6n!r]n.（名词）1. A pirate, especially one of the freebooters who preyed on Spanish shipping in the West Indies during the 17th century.海盗：尤指17世纪时掠夺在西印度群岛航行的西班牙船只的海盗2. A ruthless speculator or adventurer.冷酷的投机者或冒险家语源:1. French boucanier 法语 boucanier 2. from boucaner [to cure meat] 源自 boucaner [熏肉] 3. from boucan [barbecue frame] 源自 boucan [烤架] 4. possibly from Arawakan 可能源自 阿拉瓦克语 5. or Tupinamba (a Tupian language) bocan [rack] 或 图皮南巴语（图皮语言） bocan [搁架] 继承用法:buc”caneer“ v.（动词）注释:The Errol Flynn-like figure of the buccaneer pillaging the Spanish Main may seem less dashing if we realize that the termbuccaneer corresponds to the word barbecuer. The first recorded use of the French wordboucanier, which was borrowed into English, referred to a person on the islands of Hispaniola and Tortuga who hunted wild oxen and boars and smoked the meat in a barbecue frame known in French as aboucan. This French word came from an Arawakan or Tupinamba word meaning “a rack, sometimes used for roasting or for storing things, or a racklike platform supporting an Indian house.”The original barbecuers seem to have subsequently adapted a more remunerative way of life, piracy,which accounts for the new meaning given to the word.Buccaneer is recorded first in 1661 in its earlier sense in English; the sense we are familiar with is recorded in 1690.如果我们认识到buccaneer 一词与 barbecuer 一词词意相当，那么象艾洛尔·弗里恩这样掠夺西班牙船只的海盗也许看起来不算是勇敢了。 法语词boucanier 借用到英语中最早记录下来的意义， 是指生活在伊斯帕尼奥拉岛和托丢伽岛上的人，他们猎野牛和野猪，在boucan 这种烧烤架上烤肉。 这个法语词来自阿拉瓦克语或图皮南巴语，意为“一种架子，有时用来炙烤或贮藏食物，或指架状平台，用来支撑印第安人的房子”。专事炙烤的土著后来适应了海上掠夺这一更有利可图的生活方式。这就是boucan一词为什么被赋予了新的意义。Buccaneer 的早些时候的意义于1661年最早用英语记录下来， 而我们所熟悉的该词的含义是于1690年记录下来的 |
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