• vi. 掠奪；搶劫
• vt. 掠奪；搶劫
• n. 掠奪；掠奪物

來自古法語pilage,搶劫，來自拉丁語pilare,扯住頭發，剝皮，來自pilus,頭發，毛發，詞源同pile,depilatory.

pillage

pillage: [14] The origins of pillage are disputed. It comes from Old French pillage, a derivative of piller ‘plunder’, but there the consensus breaks down. Some say that piller (which also meant ‘tear up’) was based on pille ‘rag, cloth’, which may have been descended from Latin pilleus ‘felt cap’; others that it came from a Vulgar Latin verb *pīliāre, a derivative of Latin pīlum ‘javelin’ (source of English pile ‘supporting stake’); and others again that it came from Latin pilāre ‘remove hair’ (source of English peel [13], which originally meant ‘plunder’), a derivative of pilus ‘hair’ (source of English pile ‘nap’), in which case it would be roughly parallel in inspiration to colloquial English fleece ‘rob’.

pillage (n.)

late 14c., "act of plundering" (especially in war), from Old French pilage (14c.) "plunder," from pillier "to plunder, loot, ill-treat," possibly from Vulgar Latin *piliare "to plunder," probably from a figurative use of Latin pilare "to strip of hair," perhaps also meaning "to skin" (compare figurative extension of verbs pluck, fleece), from pilus "a hair" (see pile (n.3)).

pillage (v.)

"plunder, despoil," 1590s, from pillage (n.). Related: Pillaged; pillaging. The earlier verb in English was simply pill (late Old English), which probably is from Latin pilare.

1. There were no signs of violence or pillage.

沒有暴力或劫掠的跡象。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The invading troops were guilty of rape and pillage.

侵略軍犯了搶劫和強奸的罪.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. The sense of wrongs, the injustices, the oppression, extortion, and pillage of twenty years suddenly and found voice in a raucous howl of execration.

二十年來所深受的損害、壓迫、勒索、掠奪和不公平的對待，一下子達到了最高峰，在一陣粗聲粗氣的謾罵叫囂里發泄出來。

來自辭典例句

4. It was almost a pillage.

這簡直是一場洗劫.

來自辭典例句

5. If we pull legions from the west, the Goths will pillage us instead.

如果我們把西線的軍團調到這里,搶劫我們的將換成高斯人.

來自電影對白