bushranger

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush. Australia,historical
    — We each discharged a shot in the direction of the explosion by the bushrangers, for we had no other guide in aiming, owing to the night being so very dark, which was rendered denser by the mizzling rain which had been falling all day.
  2. A person skilled in bushcraft. Australia,obsolete
    — 1824, The Australian, quoted in 1966, Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, 2nd edition, chapter II section 2, page 31, Mr Hovell lacks all the qualities befitting a bushranger.

词形变化

bushrangers plural

词源

From bush + ranger.
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