piratical

基本解释

Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye.
尽管最成功的创业者通常都是好人，但他们眼睛里似乎都闪烁着海盗般的光芒。
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"While his piratical career wasn't that long, he made such an imprint because he used psychological warfare," said Croce.
“虽然他的海盗生涯并不是很长，但是他却留下如此深远的影响，就是因为他善于打心理战。” Croce 说。
“MERCHANT and pirate were for a long period one and the same person,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche. “Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.”
“商人和海盗很长一段时间都是同一类人” 尼采写道，“哪怕今天的商业道德也只不过是海盗道义的翻版。”

This is especially interesting first because the international piratical order is much more complex than it might first appear.
FORBES: What Can We Do About the Pirates?
Even more worrisome is the manoeuvring of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a conservative and piratical warlord, to head the new judiciary.
ECONOMIST: Afghanistan
He let Mr Gates replace the stolid General David McKiernan in Afghanistan with the piratical master of black ops, Stanley McChrystal.
ECONOMIST: Lexington