【conquistador】 - A-level备考词汇

conquistador

UK:  [kɒn'kwɪstə.dɔː(r)]

US:  [kɑn'kistə.dɔr]

复数：conquistadors  

n.

1.〔西班牙语〕征服者〔指16世纪征服秘鲁、墨西哥等地的西班牙人〕

1 . Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador who destroyed the Inca Empire in the course of his conquest of Peru.
弗朗西斯科.皮札罗是西班牙殖民先锋，征服秘鲁时，摧毁了印加帝国。

2 . Twenty years later, however, Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez is said to have brought back three chests full of cacao beans.
然而二十年后，据说西班牙征服者赫尔南·科尔斯特带来了三箱装的满满的可可豆。

3 . Back in the U. S. , he wrote a long story-poem called Conquistador about the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
当他回到美国之后，麦克列许写了一篇像故事般的长诗，题名为「征服者」PulitzerPrizeforPoetry。

4 . Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez was the first European explorer to realize cocoa's commercial possibilities.
西班牙征服者赫尔南多·科蒂斯是第一位了解可可的商业潜力的欧洲探险家。

5 . The beverage and its origin were unknown to the European continent until the arrival of conquistador Hernan Cortez.
饮料，它的起源是未知的欧洲大陆，直到征服者埃尔南·科尔特斯的到来。