piracy
piracy — 名詞
1. the violent crime of using a boat to chase down ships on the ocean and steal car
海盜行為
在海上搶劫船隻的犯罪行為
the violent crime of using a boat to chase down ships on the ocean and steal cargo, money, or weapons from the people on board.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia made shipping companies hire armed guards for their oil tankers.
索馬利亞外海的海盜行為猖獗，使航運公司不得不為油輪雇用武裝警衛。
piracy off the coast of [region]
The navy captain spent his career fighting piracy in the busy waters near Singapore.
這位海軍艦長一輩子都在新加坡附近繁忙的海域打擊海盜行為。
fighting piracy + location
In the 1700s, piracy was so common that wealthy merchants paid huge sums for naval escorts.
在 18 世紀，海盜行為相當猖獗，富商願意付一大筆錢請海軍護航。
The crew was charged with piracy after they boarded a fishing boat and stole its catch.
船員登上一艘漁船並搶走漁獲後，被以海盜行為起訴。
Captain Reyes wrote a book about her family's long history of fighting piracy in the Caribbean.
Reyes 艦長寫了一本書，講述她家族長年在加勒比海打擊海盜的歷史。
- buccaneering
old-fashioned and romantic; usually about historical pirates of the 1600s-1700s
- sea robbery
plain descriptive term; sometimes used in legal news reports
- hijacking
broader — covers ships, planes, and trucks; piracy is specifically at sea
文法句型
piracy off [region]
an act of piracy
用法筆記
Almost always uncountable. The phrase 'an act of piracy' is the standard way to talk about a single incident. Often paired with a location: 'piracy off the coast of...', 'piracy in the [Strait/Gulf of...]'.
常見錯誤
2. the practice of making and sharing copies of films, songs, software, or books wi
盜版
未經授權複製或散布著作的行為
the practice of making and sharing copies of films, songs, software, or books without permission from the people who own the rights — for example, downloading a movie from a free website instead of paying to watch it.
Music piracy fell sharply once cheap streaming services like Spotify became popular.
自從 Spotify 等便宜的串流服務流行起來後，音樂盜版的情況就大幅減少。
music / film / software piracy
The studio lost millions of dollars to online piracy in the first week after the film's release.
這部電影上映第一週，片商就因為網路盜版損失了數百萬美元。
lose [money] to piracy
Software piracy is still a serious problem in many universities, where students share paid programs for free.
在許多大學裡，軟體盜版仍是嚴重問題，學生會免費分享付費程式。
Hana refused to download the album from a piracy site, even though all her friends were doing it.
即使朋友都在下載，Hana 還是拒絕從盜版網站下載那張專輯。
New laws against piracy now allow courts to block websites that share stolen movies and games.
新的反盜版法律讓法院得以封鎖那些散布偷來的電影和遊戲的網站。
- bootlegging
informal; usually about illegal copies sold for money, especially recordings
- copyright infringement
formal and legal; the umbrella term that includes piracy as one common type
- counterfeiting
covers fake physical goods broadly (handbags, money, medicine); piracy is specifically about creative works
文法句型
[noun] piracy
piracy of [creative work]
用法筆記
Frequently appears as a compound: 'music piracy', 'film piracy', 'software piracy', 'video-game piracy'. Distinguish from sense 1 by the fixed compound — when the word in front names a creative product or media type, it is always this sense, never sea robbery.