adventurer
英 [ədˈventʃərə(r)]
美 [ədˈventʃərər]
n. 冒险者; 冒险家; 投机分子
复数:adventurers
Collins.1 / BNC.8266 / COCA.13381
牛津词典
noun
- 冒险者;冒险家
a person who enjoys exciting new experiences, especially going to unusual places - 投机分子
a person who is willing to take risks or act in a dishonest way in order to gain money or power
柯林斯词典
- 冒险者;冒险家
Anadventureris a person who enjoys going to new, unusual, and exciting places. - N-COUNT 投机取巧者;用不正当手段谋求钱财(或权利)者
If you describe someone as anadventurer, you disapprove of them because they are using dishonest or immoral methods to gain money or power.- ...unprincipled opportunists and ambitious political adventurers.
不择手段的机会主义者和野心勃勃的政治投机者
- ...unprincipled opportunists and ambitious political adventurers.
英英释义
noun
- a person who enjoys taking risks
- someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
双语例句
- They said Kelso got some rascally adventurer, some Belgian brute, to insult his son-in-law in public.
他们说是凯尔索指使某个下贱的冒险家,一个比利时恶棍,来当众侮辱他的女婿。 - He was portrayed in the press as a gold-digger and adventurer.
他被报界描写成一个淘金者和投机者。 - You know how your mother always says that I'm the adventurer.
你知道你妈妈总说我是个冒险家。 - Everybody secretly is an adventurer.
暗地里每个人都是一个冒险家。 - I'm more of a freewheeling adventurer preferring to travel in the mountains all by myself.
我是一个独来独注的冒险家,喜欢一个人在山中闲逛。 - It is the world which the geologist inspects, the paradise which the adventurer explores.
它是地质学家考察的天地,冒险家探险的乐园。 - And I do not afraid that I will be known as pure adventurer.
我不害怕,我将成为纯粹的冒险家众所周知的。 - She was also a pilot and an adventurer.
她也是一个飞行员和探险家。 - Apparently, for billionaire adventurer Richard Branson, space is no longer the final frontier.
对于亿万富翁探险家理查德•布兰森(RichardBranson)来说,太空显然已不是什么终极的探索前沿了。 - Adventurer, by contrast, implies a self-indulgent adrenaline junkie, who scares loved ones by courting puerile risk.
与之相比,冒险家一词则暗指一个自我放纵的为肾上腺素驱使的瘾君子,总在追求幼稚的惊险,让亲人担惊受怕。