The buccaneer on the wave might relinquish his calling, and become at once, if he chose, a man of probity and piety on land; nor, even in the full career of his reckless life, was he regarded as a personage with whom it was di 那些在风口浪尖上谋生的海盗们,只要心甘情愿,可以洗手不干,立刻成为岸上的一名正直诚实的君子;面即使在他们任意胡为的生涯中,人们也并不把他们视为不屑一颐或与之稍打交道就有损自己名声的人。
buccaneer
[ noun ]
someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
<noun.person> [ verb ]
live like a buccaneer
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Buccaneer \Buc`ca*neer"\, n. [F. boucanier, fr. boucaner to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins, boucan a smoking place for meat or fish, gridiron for smoking: a word of American origin.] A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [Written also {bucanier}.]
Note: Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Haiti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine.
Buccaneer \Buc`ca*neer"\, v. i. To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
He admits to lying to his own brother if he finds a good shoal, and it seems clear that the billing does not refer to him as a 'buccaneer' for nothing.
In such a world, a can-do buccaneer such as Donald Trump can look like a hero of public-spirited efficiency.
A large gym bag containing the parrot's body was taken along with a bag containing the mascot's trademark head with its huge beak and buccaneer hat.