adventurers是什么意思？

adventurers

• n. 探险家( adventurer的名词复数 )，投机取巧者，投机商，女冒险家；

例句

• Her fortune is already more than sufficient to attract those unscrupulous adventurers. 她的财产已经多得足以引起那些贪得无厌的冒险者的觊觎.
• Every year more adventurers sailed west from Spain. 每年有更多的冒险家从西班牙向西航行.
• When we think of adventurers, many of us conjure up images of larger-than-life characters trekking to the North Pole. 一想到探险者，我们很多人脑海中浮现的便是长途跋涉前往北极的非凡人物形象。
• Thoroughly drenched and chilled , the two adventurers returned to their position in the gorse. 两个冒险家浑身湿漉漉地打着寒噤,回到原先金雀花丛那里.
• These young adventurers wear light mail or light brigandine armour and carry an axe. 步行波耶骑兵身穿轻型链甲或镶甲,手持长斧,极为骁勇善战.
• ...a country spurned until now by all except the more lunatic of journalists and adventurers. 一个迄今为止除了那些更为疯狂的记者和探险家外被所有人唾弃的国家
• ...unprincipled opportunists and ambitious political adventurers. 不择手段的机会主义者和野心勃勃的政治投机者

英语六级真题

They are adventurers from all over the world.
出自-2011年12月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  冒险者；冒险家
  An adventurer is a person who enjoys going to new, unusual, and exciting places.
• N-COUNT
  投机取巧者；用不正当手段谋求钱财（或权利）者
  If you describe someone as an adventurer, you disapprove of them because they are using dishonest or immoral methods to gain money or power.
  例句
  ...unprincipled opportunists and ambitious political adventurers. 不择手段的机会主义者和野心勃勃的政治投机者