booty

英 ['buːtɪ] 美['bʊti]

畅通词汇

booty 战利品

原指奖赏，词源不详。词义受boot（益处）影响。词义由奖赏到战利品可参照英法16，17世纪官方文件letter of marque, 私掠许可证。当时英法政府为发展海上力量，打击对方，鼓励民船海盗船可以对过往商船进行合法抢劫，所掠财物部分作为奖赏。

booty: booty: [15] Booty has no connection with boots. It came into English as butin (it did not finally lose its n until the 18th century), a borrowing from Old French butin, but Old French had got it from Middle Low German būte ‘exchange’ (whence German beute and Dutch buit ‘loot’), pointing to a prehistoric Germanic source *būtiōn.
=> filibuster, freebooter
booty (n.): "plunder, gain, profit," mid-15c., from Old French butin "booty" (14c.), from a Germanic source akin to Middle Low German bute "exchange." Influenced in form and sense by boot (n.2) and in form by nouns ending in -y. Meaning "female body considered as a sex object" is 1920s, black slang.

1. Troops destroyed the capital and confiscated many works of art as war booty.: 军队摧毁了这座都城，并把大量艺术品收缴为战利品。

2. It is impossible yet to estimate booty and war material capured.: 现在还不可能估算缴获的战利品和军用物质的数字.