marauding

adj.

1. （到处）抢劫的，打劫的，劫掠的
   going around a place in search of things to steal or people to attack
   1. marauding wolves
      到处猎食的狼群

1. ADJ (人)四处劫掠的;(动物)四处攫食的
   If you talk about marauding groups of people or animals, you mean they are unpleasant and dangerous, because they wander around looking for opportunities to steal or kill.
   1. Marauding gangs of armed men have been looting food relief supplies.
      持械抢劫团伙一直在四处抢劫救济食品。
   2. ...safe from danger, such as marauding wild animals.
      远离了诸如觅食野兽之类的危险

1. The trucks tried to drive to the British base, running the gauntlet of marauding bands of gunmen.
   卡车队试图冲过几帮劫匪的火力网开赴英军基地。
2. Marauding gangs of armed men have been looting food relief supplies.
   持械抢劫团伙一直在四处抢劫救济食品。
3. If their mother had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents severely.
   母亲如果知道了这种欺诈行为，一定会严厉惩罚这些小骗子的。
4. Beatings, looting and arson by marauding militias have created an atmosphere of fear and insecurity.
   这些民兵盗匪在村落里打人、抢劫和纵火，制造了恐慌不安的气氛。
5. With a few taps at the command line, you can launch a Web site, recruit legions to your cause, or vanquish a marauding thunder lizard.
   只需在命令行上敲几下，就可以启动网站、招募军团或击败可怕的火龙。
6. Then the Bosnians were overrun by marauding Serbs. Now Ukraine is buckling under the military might of a revanchist Russia.
   当时波斯尼亚人被四处劫掠的塞尔维亚人蹂躏，而如今的乌克兰则受到复仇的俄罗斯的军事力量的压迫。
7. The Danes also hold an annual celebration of somewhat less genteel ancestors-the marauding Vikings.
   同时丹麦人也为他们不那么体面的老祖先&维京海盗们举行着一年一度的庆典。
8. Settlers once ran into Payson for protection from marauding Apaches;
   移民们曾经跑到佩森寻求保护，以便躲避阿帕齐人的劫掠。
9. Rio, Ivanhoe and the hordes of other mining groups marauding over the steppe may want to see this as a piece of theatre.
   力拓、艾芬豪和其他在蒙古大草原上大肆劫掠的矿商们或许想要把这当成一场戏来看。
10. The town survived the depredations of marauding gangs. The twins grew up to lead a band of outlaws who raided the countryside, until eventually their true identity was discovered.
    这个城镇经受住了打家劫舍的匪徒造成的破坏.他们后来成为一群打家劫舍的强盗头领，直到最后他们的真正身份被人发现。
11. Even if you were one of the very few with the constitution to survive, there was a good chance that a raid by the French or marauding buccaneers would get you instead.
    即使你是依靠强壮的体质而活了下来的少数幸存者之一，你也极有可能遭到法国人的袭击或者遇到打劫的海盗。
12. The the wild boar ( Sus scrofa) is often found marauding in the swamp margin and it is a source of bushmeat in Asia.
    野猪（Susscrofa）经常被发现在沼泽边掠食，它们本身是亚洲丛林的兽肉来源。
13. Certainly it would be better than losing the bulbs to the marauding bands of fleeing German soldiers.
    当然，吃了总比让那些溃逃的德国兵抢去了强。
14. Bands of marauding Indians; predatory warfare; a raiding party.
    成群进行抢劫的印第安人；掠夺战争；抢劫团伙。
15. Everyone, whether in the country or the city, has been freed from fear of pillage and plunder by marauding troops.
    无论是在乡村还是在城市，人们都不用担心被军队抢劫。
16. They were attacked by marauding soldiers.
    他们遭到到处抢掠的士兵攻击。
17. KIBATI, Congo ( Reuters)-Hungry, frightened Congolese refugees pleaded for protection from marauding fighters on Sunday while foreign governments discussed aid but hesitated over sending more troops.
    星期天，饥饿受惊的刚果难民恳求得到保护免遭叛乱者的伤害，与此同时外国政府一直在讨论援助却不见加派军队。
18. Within the next month, eleven people were killed in the near-by villages by marauding bands-bought soldiers, a few village leaders and the landlords in the Revenge Corps.
    在此后短短一个月的时间内，石壁村附近几个村子里，就有十一人惨遭“还乡团”的毒手。
19. The flocks were penned in for the night as a protection against marauding wolves.
    羊群晚上被圈起来，以防恶狼掠走。
20. Humans who hunt in the Sunderbans must remain constantly alert for marauding tigers that attack from the water-the great predators sometimes kill people.
    在桑德班斯打猎的人必须随时提高警觉防从水里伺机攻击的老虎，因为这些大肉食动物有时会杀人。
21. He sensed behind them the marauding forces.
    他觉得那到处劫掠杀戮的大队人马就在他们后面。
22. Japan had tried the more brutish British method of marauding around the region in pursuit of an empire.
    日本追求帝国梦的过程与英国相似，也曾对周边地区大肆劫掠，而且手段更为野蛮。
23. The French president was first to recognise the "national council" in Benghazi, first to talk of the need for air strikes and first to send planes to repel Muammar Qaddafi's marauding forces.
    法国总统第一个承认利比亚反政府武装在班加西的“国民议会”，第一个放话说有必要对利比亚进行空中打击以及第一个派遣空军击退卡扎菲残暴的政府军。
24. Manchester United fans may not like this but Phil Jones shares with another Prestonian a sweet marauding talent that sweeps him out of defence and up the pitch.
    曼联球迷可能不喜欢，但琼斯虽然到处踢得很欢但防守的位置感还是差点。
25. They went in fear of attack by marauding bands.
    他们提心吊胆生怕遭到劫匪的袭击。
26. Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee star as a father and son who face starving stragglers and marauding packs of cannibals after a nuclear explosion destroys America.
    影片中维果·莫特森和柯蒂·斯密特-麦菲饰演了一对父子，在核爆炸摧毁了美国后，他们面临饥饿、迷失方向、被食人族袭击的故事。
27. Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding.
    以抢劫、掠夺或劫掠为特征的。

adj

1. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
   1. bands of marauding Indians
   2. predatory warfare
   3. a raiding party

   Synonym:    predatoryraiding