n. (尤指旧时的)海盗; 盗版者; 盗印者; 非法播音者(或组织) v. 盗印; 窃用 pirate的第三人称单数和复数
柯林斯词典
N-COUNT 海盗;海上劫掠者 Pirates are sailors who attack other ships and steal property from them.
In the nineteenth century, pirates roamed the seas. 19世纪时海盗猖獗。
N-COUNT 道德败坏者;违法者 You can refer to someone who behaves in an immoral or illegal way as a pirate .
Of course I knew Max was a rogue, a bit of a pirate. 我当然知道麦克斯是个无赖,是个小流氓。
VERB 非法复制及出售(录像带、录音带、书籍、计算机程序等) Someone who pirates video tapes, cassettes, books, or computer programs copies and sells them when they have no right to do so.
A school technician pirated anything from video nasties to computer games. 学校的一名技术人员做盗版,从黄色录像到计算机游戏什么都有。
...American manufacturers who've seen their designs pirated in other countries. 见过自己的设计在其他国家遭到盗版的美国制造商
ADJ 盗版的;盗用的;剽窃的 A pirate version of something is an illegal copy of it.
Pirate copies of the video are already said to be in Britain. 该录像带的盗版版本据说已在英国出现。