Adventurer

(noun.) a person who enjoys taking risks.

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• This tall man, Tom, is a rascally adventurer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Count Fosco, though not a rich man, was not a penniless adventurer either. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But in this situation, the superior vigilance and attention of a private adventurer would, in all probability, soon make them weary of the trade. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In 1169 a Kurdish adventurer, named Saladin, became ruler of Egypt, in which country the Shiite heresy had now fallen before a Sunnite revival. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You have called me an adventurer, Sophronia. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• An outcast Englishman, a renegade adventurer—your uncle Rudolph! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The African explorer and the Polar adventurer can each talk with his countrymen. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• My dear Maurice, believe me, there are still kingdoms to be gained, if he who seeks has the nerve, judgment, and fortune of a born adventurer. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• But subsequently the British Court veered round to a more cordial attitude to the new adventurer. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• On the one hand there was this adventurer who had betrayed the republic; on the other the dull weight of old kingship restored. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Caliphronas was an adventurer pure and simple, of course, as regards his vocation as free lance, but not as touching his moral or physical qualities. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He became an adventurer in the Greek wars. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I will not say a thief, but use the milder term, 'adventurer. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• By and by, he mentioned casually--the artful adventurer--that he would go and get his breakfast as soon as we had finished ours. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Does it not strike you, Mr. Yorke, that for a mere penniless adventurer to aspire to a rich woman's hand is presumptuous--contemptible? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The condition of India at this time was one very interesting and attractive to European adventurers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To begin with, each story is nearly always a story of adventurers and of cruelty and loot. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In a little while a swarm of Spanish adventurers were exploring the new lands. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A month or six weeks later I saw an extract from an American newspaper, describing the departure of the adventurers on their inland journey. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• In 1698, however, the private adventurers were subjected to a duty of ten per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The rest of the emperors of this period were chiefly adventurers too unimportant to the general scheme of things for us to note. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Amidst the vast ruins of the city of Rome half-independent families of quasi-noble adventurers and their retainers maintained themselves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Nor can we tell much more of the swift spread of Spanish adventurers over the rest of America, outside the Portuguese reservation of Brazil. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Most of the former are manifestly unscrupulous adventurers who try to utilize the public necessity and unhappiness for their own advancement. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No private adventurers, accordingly, have ever attempted to trade to that country in competition with them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The Abbasids were adventurers and rulers of an older school than Islam. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And as he does so, events gather towards a fresh invasion by the free adventurers of the outer world. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Smaller or greater adventurers seized a castle or a countryside and ruled an uncertain area. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I have known many adventurers; interesting spirits--amiable society! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Several adventurers that happened to the author. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.

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