1.The acquisition of money, except by despoilment, gift, royal favor, or inheritance, had been unknown at Oldenhurst.
英:[dɪs'pɔɪlmənt]
美:[dɪs'pɔɪlmənt]
词根:despoil
vt.despoil 掠夺,剥夺;夺取
deprivation, divesture
Middle English despoylen, from Anglo-French despoiller, from Latin despoliare, from de- + spoliare to strip, rob — more at spoil >entry 1
The first known use of despoil was in the 14th century
despoilverb
to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : plunder, pillage
1.The acquisition of money, except by despoilment, gift, royal favor, or inheritance, had been unknown at Oldenhurst.
2.This remake injects some contemporary misfortune (humans despoil the water, we’re told).
3.Historians François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux unpick the broader social, economic and political factors underpinning our despoilment of the environment in their altogether more comprehensive history of pollution, The Contamination of the Earth.
4.Author of more than 15 poetry and essay collections, Oliver wrote brief, direct pieces that sang of her worship of the outdoors and disdain for greed, despoilment and other human crimes.
5.Any accident risks even worse despoilment if ships leak oil, gas, chemicals or other substances.
6.The Everglades may be the posterchild for both the richness of Florida’s wilderness and its despoilment, but it’s hard to find any part of the state that hasn’t suffered from agriculture or development.
7.At present, despite the despoilment and misuse of resources, there’s still a vibrant landscape to explore and to cherish.
8.The monument, situated along the Arizona Strip, aims to protect the Grand Canyon from more uranium mining, which Native Americans said would despoil many sacred ancestral sites, leach into aquifers and threaten water supplies.
9.At first, it’s a gradual despoilment, but it becomes ever more rapid.
10.His victim dragged herself back to her mother's door, and, half dead with grief and fright, related the awful story of her despoilment.
11.He knew, as all do, that a few thousand lumbermen entered each autumn, and, much to his regret, made steady inroads toward its despoilment.
12.The landscape has been despoiled by industrial development.
13.This urge to despoil images of the unpopular goes a long way toward explaining why so many statues of Nero lost their heads, said Eric R. Varner, professor of classics and art history at Emory University.
14.The 1971 amendment mandates that New Mexico prevent the despoilment of air, water and other natural resources.
15.Growth in Africa must be clean, both in terms of generating energy and not despoiling the continent’s landscape and natural resources.
16.The Minnesota park is under the charge of a state custodian, who cares for and protects it from despoilment.
17.But that hasn’t dissuaded some people in the Middle East and North Africa from doing to rivers what others all over the globe have done to theirs: despoil and deplete them.
18.Barnstaple in Devon held a referendum in 1967 on "London overspill" and rejected the idea, fearing the "despoilment" of the countryside, according to The Times.
19.Gould's confederates and agents were ruined, financially and morally; scores of failures, dozens of suicides, the despoilment of a whole people, were the results of Gould's handiwork.
20.Some of those memorable sights indicate ecological despoilment.