raid

raid
noun
  1. a rapid surprise attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces in warfare
    袭击；突然袭击；侵袭
    a bombing raid.
    空袭。
    ■a rapid surprise attack to commit a crime, especially to steal from business premises
    劫掠；突然攫取；劫夺
    an early morning raid on a bank.
    清晨发生的一次银行抢劫。
    ■a surprise visit by police to arrest suspected people or seize illicit goods
    突然查抄，突然搜捕
    ■(Stock Exchange)a hostile attempt to buy a major or controlling interest in the shares of a company
    (股票)恶意大量买进
verb
  1. [with obj.]conduct a raid on
    突然袭击；突然查抄（或搜捕）
    officers raided thirty homes yesterday.
    警官昨天突击查抄了30户。
    ■quickly and illicitly take something from (a place)
    劫掠（某地）；攫取（或劫夺）（某处）的东西
    she crept down the stairs to raid the larder.
    她悄悄爬下楼梯去食品室拿东西吃。
派生
raider
noun
语源
  1. late Middle English (as a noun): Scots variant of road in the early senses 'journey on horseback', 'foray'. The noun became rare from the end of the 16th cent. but was revived by Sir Walter Scott; the verb dates from the mid 19th cent
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