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 adventurer [əd'ventʃərə(r)]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 冒险家, 投机者

[法] 冒险者, 投机者


  1. He is an adventurer in financial field.
    他是金融领域的投机者。
  2. Africa is full of adventurers.
    在非洲有很多冒险家。
  3. A ruthless speculator or adventurer.
    冷酷的投机者或冒险家


adventurer
[ noun ]
  1. a person who enjoys taking risks

    2. <noun.person>
  2. someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)

    3. <noun.person>


Adventurer \Ad*ven"tur*er\, n. [Cf. F. aventurier.]
1. One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who
seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous
enterprises.

2. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

  1. Marion Rice Hart, an adventurer who sailed around the world and made seven solo flights across the Atlantic, died Monday of pneumonia at age 98.
  2. Leahy is a man straight out of Conrad; an adventurer more than an explorer, a poor, uneducated but charismatic man of great bravery and equal ruthlessness, driven by the dream of finding gold.
  3. The Hopi Indian tribe's religious beliefs have accomplished what giant spiders, ancient booby-traps, murder-minded ruffians and supernatural events failed to do _ halt the movie adventurer Indiana Jones.
  4. Harrison Ford, whose breathtaking chase scenes have characterized his role as film adventurer Indiana Jones, stopped in this southern Wyoming town last week and quietly bought a new motorcycle.
  5. I play her guide, who's a swaggering adventurer.
  6. When American adventurer William Walker set fire to this handsome colonial city in 1856, the citizens are said to have hidden their gold in holes in the ground or in thick adobe walls.
  7. On Feb. 12, Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner and West German adventurer Arved Fuchs completed what they said was a 1,700-mile crossing on foot, without the use of sled dogs.
  8. Sir Edmund Hillary, the 70-year-old New Zealand adventurer who pioneered the route up Mount Everest in 1953, complained last March of tourist development destroying the pristine innocence of the majestic mountains.
  9. If we could convince them that this $60,000 is all there is, we feel they would understand that and release Scott." Heimdal's friends in Peoria describe him as an adventurer.
  10. The grizzled Minnesota adventurer and five companions from five countries are probably as prepared as humans can be for the continent's perils.
  11. Marion Rice Hart, an adventurer who sailed around the world and made seven solo flights across the Atlantic, has died of pneumonia.
  12. But despite self-confidence about his abilities as an aviator, Rust is no adventurer and an unlikely hero.
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