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- a person who attacks and robs ships at sea海盗。
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- a person who appropriates or reproduces the work of another for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright盗版者, 侵犯版权者, 侵犯专利权者：
as modifier pirate recordings.盗版音像制品。
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- a person or organization that broadcasts radio or television programmes without official authorization非法无线电（或电视）节目广播者（或组织）：
as modifier a pirate radio station.非法广播电台。
with obj.
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- dated rob or plunder (a ship)〈旧〉劫掠（船只）。
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- often as adj. pirated use or reproduce (another's work) for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright盗版, 侵犯版权, 侵犯专利权：
he sold pirated tapes of Hollywood blockbusters.
他卖好莱坞大片的盗版录像带。
WORD TRENDS
Though they no longer come with parrots and peg legs， modern pirates are as big a threat as the swashbuckling figures of history. And their numbers are rising， with the Oxford English Corpus showing a more than fourfold explosion in use since 2007. The Corpus also shows that Somali is the most common modifier of pirate, reflecting a recent surge in piracy around the Horn of Africa. But the high seas are not the only place where pirates lurk - online piracy is also on the increase. The use of pirate to refer to someone who steals the work of another has been around since the 17th century， but the ease of copying and sharing files via the Internet has led to a massive increase. While those who download films and music over the Web may not consider themselves to be criminals， production companies have a different view: Internet pirates cost US industry hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenue every year.
派生词
piratic
adjectivepiratical
adjectivepiratically
adverb词源
Middle English: from Latin pirata, from Greek peiratēs, from peirein 'to attempt, attack' （from peira 'an attempt'）.