英语释义

• a person hired to fight for another country than their own

• profit oriented;

  "a commercial book"

  "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan

  "a mercenary enterprise"

  "a moneymaking business"

• used of soldiers hired by a foreign army

• marked by materialism

片语

Mercenary Arquebusiers雇佣火绳枪兵

Mercenary Knight佣兵骑士

Mercenary Cog雇佣柯克战船

Killzone Mercenary雇佣兵

Super Mercenary超级佣兵

Mercenary Informer佣兵检举人

Mercenary Pierre雇佣军皮埃尔佐藤贤一

Mercenary Edition佣兵版

mercenary choice唯利是图的选择

mercenary marriage买卖婚姻；着眼实利的婚姻

英汉例句

• hirst is a former soldier traumatised during a stint working as a mercenary in yugoslavia.

  赫斯特从前是个军人，在南斯拉夫做过佣兵，在一次紧急任务中负伤。

• at first most went to northern europe as mercenary soldiers or traders, setting up commercial networks from rotterdam to k?nigsberg and penetrating far into poland.

  最初，他们作为雇佣兵或者贸易商去往北欧，并建立起了由鹿特丹到哥尼斯堡（现为加里宁格勒）的商业网，最远渗透至波兰。

• this would requirelittle effort to demonstrate, since the present ruin of italy is causedby nothing other than its having relied on mercenary troops for a period ofmany years.

  这几乎没有必要花力气去证明，因为意大利最近的沦陷除了他在许多年的相当长一段时间里对雇佣兵团的依赖外再没有其他原因了。

• although its design was inspired by the work of the darwin-award-worthy mercenary michael echanis, we don’t expect to see a lot of contractors carrying these things around.

  虽然它的设计灵感来自于一位佣兵，但我们可不希望佣兵们带着这玩意儿到处跑。

• mercenary captains are either excellent men or they arenot.

  佣兵队长或者是极有才干之人或者不是。

• his long dark history as a mercenary in africa, from 1961 onwards, had blurred everything about him.

  自从1961年，得纳德先生就开始了其在非洲作为一名雇佣兵的黑暗的历史长篇，这也让关于他的一切事实都模糊不清。

• a french mercenary scalps cuban soldiers and a mysterious woman bewitches all three protagonists and others, too.

  法国雇佣兵杀害古巴兵和一个谜一样的女人吸引了书中的三位主角以及其他人。

• where is the basic integrity in enteringinto this mercenary relationship?

  加入到这样一种雇佣关系，起码的正直到哪里去了呢？

• she pushed the idea of a mercenary force of pilots, mostly american, called the flying tigers, much featured in newsreels.

  她促进了雇佣空军部队（其中多为美国人）理念的发展，在新闻影片中，雇用空军多被称为飞虎队（flyingtigers）。

• ms walden couldn’t control best’s inebriated existence, but, with pressure from her mercenary boss, she could influence how he was represented in the news.

  沃尔顿改变不了贝斯特酗酒的生活方式，但是在唯利是图的上司的压力下，她改变了在新闻界展示他形象的方法。

• the latest installment features metal gear「s mercenary hero, snake, as he and a group of soldiers of fortune set off to save costa rica from invasion in 1974 by a mysterious army.

  最新一部的游戏讲的是《潜龙谍影》系列的雇佣兵英雄snake，在1974年带领一队生死与共的士兵奔赴哥斯达黎加抵抗神秘军队入侵的故事。

• the mercenary pointedly rearranged himself, twisting 」round so that his back pressed lightly against the bars of her crib.

  雇佣兵重整自己的姿态，转了个身好把身子轻轻靠在婴儿床的围栏上。

• if someone were to reply that anyone who bears arms will act in this manner, mercenary or not, i would answer that armies have to be commanded either by aprince or by a republic.

  如果有人会回应到任何手握军权的人都是这个样子，不论是雇佣兵还是其他军队，我会回答说军队必须在君主或共和国的控制之下。

• for a full minute, the mercenary couldn「t speak.

  整整一分钟，雇佣兵没法开口。

• french mercenary scalps cuban soldiers and a mysterious woman bewitches all three protagonists and others, too.

  法国雇佣兵杀害古巴兵和一个谜一样的女人吸引了书中的三位主角以及其他人。

• in may 1604, thomas wintour enlisted the help of a yorkshire mercenary named guy fawkes who had distinguished himself on the continent in the spanish army.

  1604年5月，托马斯·温图尔招募了一名出身约克郡、在欧陆的西班牙军队中打出了鼎鼎大名的雇佣兵盖伊·福克斯。

• this body of soldiery- which still sustains a corporate existence, and marches down from past ages with an ancient and honourable fame- was composed of no mercenary materials.

  这个士兵组成的方阵，里面没有一个是雇佣兵，因此仍然保持着一个整体而存在，他们从拥有古老而荣誉的声名的过去的岁月中齐步走来。

• i always considered him calculating and mercenary and did my best to avoid him.

  我一向认为他这个人工于心计又唯利是图，所以总是设法避开他。

• in the expendables stallone plays barney ross, the mercenary marksman who leads the team.

  在《敢死队》一片中，史泰龙饰演率领整个雇佣兵队伍的神枪手巴尼·罗斯。

• an example fromantiquity of the use of mercenary troopsis the carthaginians.

  一个使用雇佣兵的来自古代的例子就是迦太基人。

• in 1993 he set up a mercenary outfit, executive outcomes, with the controversial entrepreneur tony buckingham. it made a fortune protecting oil installations from rebels in angola」s civil war.

  1993年，他与非议不断的企业家tonybuckingham一道创立了「执行结果（executiveoutcomes）」公司，该公司唯利是图，曾在安哥拉内战中为保卫石油设施免遭叛军破坏而大赚一笔。

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