poacher

noun

1. 偷猎者；非法捕猎的人
   a person who illegally hunts birds, animals, or fish on sb else's property
2. 水煮荷包蛋锅
   a special pan for poaching eggs
3. （在对方球门附近伺机进球的）偷袭球员
   a player who waits near the opposite team's goal in order to try to score if they get the ball

1. VERB （侵入他人地界）偷猎，偷捕
   If someone poaches fish, animals, or birds, they illegally catch them on someone else's property.
   1. Many wildlife parks are regularly invaded by people poaching game.
      很多野生动物园都时常遭到偷猎之徒的侵入。
2. VERB 挖（其他机构的成员或顾客）
   If an organization poaches members or customers from another organization, they secretly or dishonestly persuade them to join them or become their customers.
   1. The company authorised its staff to poach customers from the opposition.
      公司指使其职员挖对手的客户。
   2. ...allegations that it had poached members from other unions.
      它从其他工会挖走了成员的说法
3. VERB 窃取，盗用（他人的想法）
   If someone poaches an idea, they dishonestly or illegally use the idea.
   1. The opposition parties complained that the government had poached their ideas.
      众反对党抱怨政府盗用它们的想法。
4. VERB 把（鸡蛋）打入沸水中煮
   When you poach an egg, you cook it gently in boiling water without its shell.
   1. Poach the eggs for 4 minutes...
      把鸡蛋打入开水中煮4分钟
   2. He had a light breakfast of poached eggs and tea.
      他早餐就吃了点水煮荷包蛋，喝了点茶。
5. VERB （在煮沸的水、牛奶或其他液体中）用文火煮，煨（鱼等食品）
   If you poach food such as fish, you cook it gently in boiling water, milk, or other liquid.
   1. Poach the chicken until just cooked.
      用文火把鸡肉煮到刚刚熟。
   2. ...a pear poached in red wine...
      红酒煨的梨
   3. The main course was to be a whole poached salmon.
      主菜将是一整条清炖鲑鱼。

1. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case.
   他原有一枝枪，他比世上任何枪手都射得好，有时并且喜欢私自打猎，那对他是很不利的。
2. In a recent interview, a convicted poacher who spent a decade running a gang in Kenya admitted to personally killing more than 70 elephants.
   在最近一次采访中，一名被判有罪的偷猎者承认曾亲手猎杀70多头大象。他曾在肯尼亚一个偷猎团伙当了10年的头目。
3. An old poacher makes the Best keeper. He knows that would be a disgrace to a pirate, and Tom's too proud for that sort of thing.
   惯偷可做最佳看守人（以盗制盗）。他知道这样做对一个海盗来说是不体面的，像汤姆这样爱面子的人，是不会干出这种事情的。
4. The ghost of a hanged poacher is said to haunt the manor house.
   据说一个吊死的偷猎者的鬼魂常在这个庄园里出没。
5. Mountain gorillas are being seriously threatened by poacher.
   山地大猩猩正受到偷猎者的严重威胁。
6. An old poacher makes the best keeper.
   惯偷可做最佳看守人（以盗制盗）。
7. Rovers then equalised from the penalty spot before Torres marked his first start in six weeks with a poacher's goal.
   这时候布莱克本通过点球扳平比分，随后托雷斯门前铲射拿到他六周之后的第一个进球。
8. The poacher, whose name was dave.
   那个名叫戴夫的偷猎者。
9. But you are a poacher.
   但你是偷猎者。
10. The poacher: someone connects with you in order to see your list of contacts with a view to poaching your clients.
    挖墙脚：有人加你，目的是要看你的联系人名单，好挖走你的客户。
11. The poacher was chewing on a wad of tobacco.
    那个偷猎者正在嚼一团烟叶。
12. The Poacher's Blend is crafted from the classic Barossa Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc, offering fresh citrus crispness and lifted tropical fruit flavours, the ultimate fruit salad flavours in a bottle.
    这款酒是用巴罗莎的瑟美戎和白苏维翁酿造的。带有新鲜清脆的热带水果香，仿佛是一杯终极水果沙拉。
13. The poacher was arrested for trapping in the game preserve.
    偷猎者因在禁猎区从事诱捕而被抓获。
14. In the shallow waters off Hokkaido, a barbed poacher crawls across glistening volcanic sand on spiny pectoral fins.
    在北海道外的浅水水域，一只带刺的入侵者利用胸鳍刺爬过闪亮的火山砂。
15. Large as it is, the Old Trafford squad has not contained a proven poacher since Ruud van Nistelrooy was sold to Real Madrid and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's career drew to a close.
    曼联这么大牌的球队，在范尼被卖到皇马和索尔斯克亚挂靴之后，一直没获得一位已经证明自己的“偷猎者”。
16. There are14 of them, and they have failed to catch a single poacher for more than a year.
    仅有的14名护林员在过去的一年多时间内没有抓到一个偷猎者。
17. What was he saying about you being a poacher?
    他为何说你是偷猎者？
18. Selfishness and unhappiness often go hand in hand. The poacher, like the smuggler, smacks too strongly of the brigand.
    自私与不快乐常相伴。私自打猎的人正如走私的人，都和土匪相去不远。
19. I only scored poacher's goals with my head, I didn't have to jump or move much.
    我争顶头球的时候只是靠抢先一步，并不需要跳很高或者大量跑动。
20. Will you want to learn from a poacher who cannot think for himself?
    你会相信一个没有自我的小偷吗？
21. The poacher beat a hasty retreat when he see the police come
    偷猎者见有警察来到立刻仓皇逃走
22. The poacher lives in the forest, the smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea.
    私自打猎的人住在森林里，走私的人住在山中或海上。
23. While centre forward Thierry Henry rarely scores a tap-in, Pires seems to picking up a poacher's instincts as he gets older.
    作为中锋的亨利很少打入包抄推射的入球，而皮雷在岁数增大的同时却获得了一个禁区杀手的灵感。
24. Klose, who reportedly could miss the game with a back injury, is a poacher, and a decent one at that, but largely a finisher of other men's creativity.
    据说可能因背伤缺席比赛的克洛泽是个坐收渔翁之利的猎手，虽然名正言顺，但大部分的进球都是他人创造性劳动的收尾工作。
25. But you have a personal egg poacher.
    但是你有一个私人煮鸡蛋的。

n.

poacher turned gamekeeper

• 经过角色转换的人；当年造反今天掌权的人
  a person who has changed from one situation or attitude to the opposite one, especially sb who used to oppose people in authority but is now in a position of authority

noun

1. small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates

   Synonym:    sea poachersea poker

2. a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)

3. someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another