freebooter
freebooter — 名詞
1. A person who uses the chaos of war as cover to steal from ships, villages, and c
掠奪者
趁戰亂掠奪財物的人
A person who uses the chaos of war as cover to steal from ships, villages, and camps for private profit.
In the 1600s, Anthony earned a dark reputation as a freebooter along the Spanish coast.
在十七世紀，Anthony 因在西班牙沿海一帶劫掠而惡名昭彰。
collocation: freebooter along [coastline]
The freebooter Yuki raided three merchant vessels before soldiers finally made an arrest.
掠奪者 Yuki 襲擊了三艘商船，最後才被士兵逮捕。
freebooter as agent: freebooter + raided [target]
Local fishermen paid a freebooter named Nikos to spare their boats each spring.
當地漁民每年春天付錢給一名叫 Nikos 的掠奪者，請對方放過他們的船。
A band of freebooters looted the port town of Santa Clara for three days.
一群掠奪者洗劫了聖克拉拉港鎮整整三天。
Historians now debate whether Captain Ilan was a legal privateer or merely a freebooter.
歷史學家如今仍在爭論 Ilan 船長究竟是合法的私掠船長，還是單純的掠奪者。
- pirate
robs ships at sea in peacetime or war; broader and far more common than freebooter
- privateer
has government authorization during wartime; a freebooter operates without such permission
- buccaneer
specifically 17th-century Caribbean raiders targeting Spanish ships and colonies
- marauder
roams and loots on land more broadly, not necessarily tied to wartime