plunder

• n. 略奪する。
• vt. 略奪する；強奪する；横取りする
• vi. 略奪する；盗む

ドイツ語のplundernから、内装品を略奪すること、中ハイランドのplunderから、内装品、衣類、荷物、家具などを略奪すること。その後、17世紀のヨーロッパ三十年戦争でイギリス兵によってイギリスに伝えられた。最終的な語源は不明である。

plunder

plunder: [17] Plunder is of Dutch origin, and etymologically denotes something like ‘rob of household odds and ends’. It was borrowed from Middle Dutch plunderen, which was presumably derived from the noun plunde or plunne ‘household goods, clothes, etc’, whose origins are unknown.

plunder (n.)

"goods taken by force; act of plundering," 1640s, from plunder (v.).

plunder (v.)

1630s, from German plündern, from Middle High German plunderen "to plunder," originally "to take away household furniture," from plunder (n.) "household goods, clothes," also "lumber, baggage" (14c.; compare Modern German Plunder "lumber, trash"), which is related to Middle Dutch plunder "household goods;" Frisian and Dutch plunje "clothes." A word acquired by English via the Thirty Years War and applied in native use after the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642. Related: Plundered; plundering. Plunderbund was a U.S. colloquial word from 1914 referring to "a corrupt alliance of corporate and financial interests," with German Bund "alliance, league."

1. Plunder is the very nature of imperialism.

帝国主義の本性は略奪である。

2.The thieves hid their plunder in the cave.

賊は盗品を洞窟に隠した。

3.The invaders plunder at no allowance.

侵略者が略奪した。

4.She faces charges of helping to plunder her country 's treasury of billions of dollars.

彼女は数十億ドルの国家財産の横領に協力したという告発に直面した。

5.The thieves are often armed and in some cases have killed for their plunder .

これらの泥棒は凶器をよく携帯し、盗品のために人を殺すことがある。