Raid

(noun.) an attempt by speculators to defraud investors.

(verb.) search for something needed or desired; 'Our babysitter raided our refrigerator'.

(verb.) take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock; 'T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies'.

(verb.) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on; 'The police raided the crack house'.

编辑:基蒂

• We got it in the last serious raid. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He made a raid on a neighboring baron and completed his outfit with the booty secured. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Happily Lydgate had ended by losing in the billiard-room, and brought away no encouragement to make a raid on luck. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This raid was of great importance, for Grierson had attracted the attention of the enemy from the main movement against Vicksburg. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• That was the last raid of Pablo, Anselmo said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• On this day Wilson returned from his raid upon the Virginia Central Railroad, having damaged it considerably. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• By crossing above, Lee is cut off from all chance of ignoring Richmond and going north on a raid. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The Germans made a series of Zeppelin, and later of aeroplane, raids upon Paris and the east of England. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There would be no more killing in France, no more air raids--and things would get better. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When night came, many of the main streets, which had been kept in darkness for many months because of the air raids, were brightly lit. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Occasionally the First Born themselves make raids upon the outer world. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Cavalry raids were also made by Generals McCook, Garrard, and Stoneman, to cut the remaining Railroad communication with Atlanta. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• They were in Brussels, they had overrun Savoy, they had raided to Mayence; they had seized the Scheldt from Holland. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This is the level of culture at which Sherman Anti-Trust acts are passed, brothels are raided, and labor agitators are thrown into jail. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The evils of prostitution are seen as a series of episodes, each of which must be clubbed, forbidden, raided and jailed. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They raided Persia, and threatened Constantinople with a great fleet of small craft (in 865, 904, 941, and 1043). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Later on the east coast was raided and settled by Northmen, but we do not know to what extent they altered the racial quality. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As those died in the night when we raided Otero, he thought. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• They carried their raiding right down the Italian peninsula, devastating all Etruria. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They meet the evils of dance halls by barricading them; they go forth to battle against vice by raiding brothels and fining prostitutes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For the most part this was a mere raiding of the borders. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They went thus far north because the Sultan of Egypt was raiding the Ilkhan domains at this time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Their great raiding period was between 900 and 950. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They were presently raiding the shores of Greece. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A force of seven hundred men had come out from Mecca to convoy home another caravan, and they encountered a large raiding party of three hundred. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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