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外刊例句
- She blackened his Wikipedia entry, posted damning reviews of his work, and contacted his employers with allegations of plagiarism and rape.
她曾抹黑拉斯顿的维基百科页面,在网上发表对他作品的严厉批评,还联系拉斯顿的雇主提出剽窃和强奸等指控。
——《经济学人》 - Japan’s top universities are rushing to install anti-plagiarism software and are combing through old doctoral theses amid allegations that they are honeycombed with similar problems.
由于被指存在诸多类似问题,日本的一些顶尖学府正抓紧安装反剽窃软件,并审阅以往的博士论文。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[noun] (disapproving) an act of plagiarizing sth; sth that has been plagiarized
[名词] 抄袭、剽窃;剽窃作品
深入解读
公元80年,古罗马诗人马提雅尔(Martial)用拉丁语 plagiarius (绑架者)喻指“文学窃贼”,即“剽窃者”。1601年英国剧作家、诗人和文学评论家琼森(Ben Jonson)将其英语化为 plagiary。20年后从该词派生出 plagiarism,用以指“抄袭”或“剽窃”,随后又衍生出 plagiarist (剽窃者),而 plagiary 一词则逐渐被人弃用。到了18世纪,人们又造出 plagiarize (抄袭、剽窃)这一动词形式。
名人用例
If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
如果你抄袭一个人的,这是剽窃;如果你抄袭多个人的,那叫研究。
出自美国剧作家威尔逊·米茨纳(Wilson Mizner,1876年5月19日 - 1933年4月3日),其主要代表作品有《小巨人》《难以驾御》等。
同近义词
- piracy: the act of making illegal copies of video tapes, computer programs, books, etc., in order to sell them
- theft: the action or crime of stealing
- appropriation: the action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission