booty
英 ['bu?t?]
美['b?ti]
- n. 戰利品；贓物；獲得之物
- n. (Booty)人名；(英)布蒂
暢通詞匯
中文詞源
booty 戰利品
原指獎賞，詞源不詳。詞義受boot（益處）影響。詞義由獎賞到戰利品可參照英法16，17世紀官方文件letter of marque, 私掠許可證。當時英法政府為發展海上力量，打擊對方，鼓勵民船海盜船可以對過往商船進行合法搶劫，所掠財物部分作為獎賞。
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.
- 軍隊摧毀了這座都城，并把大量藝術品收繳為戰利品。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. It is impossible yet to estimate booty and war material capured.
- 現在還不可能估算繳獲的戰利品和軍用物質的數字.
來自辭典例句
- 3. I made booty of a good radio.
- 我得到一個好收音機.
來自辭典例句
- 4. The bandits divided up the booty.
- 強盜們平分贓物.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Don't play booty with me.
- 別在我面前耍花招.
來自辭典例句