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词汇 joyride
释义 joyride
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈdʒɔɪ.raɪd/ us /ˈdʒɔɪ.raɪd/
an occasion when someone drives fast and dangerously for pleasure, especially in a stolen vehicle: (用偷来的车)开快车兜风
He took his grandmother's car for a joyride.他偷了奶奶的车开去兜风。
Three people were killed in a joyride crash.
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joyriding
A teenager was stopped in a car on a joyride after stealing her mum's car keys.
She took her sister's motorbike for a joyride.
They stole the car and decided to take a joyride on the beach.
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joyride | American Dictionary


joyride
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdʒɔɪˌrɑɪd/
an act of driving around for enjoyment in a car, esp. one that was taken without permission and is driven in a dangerous manner

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Visits abroad can be taken by the public at large to be perks and a joyride.
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I welcome also the suggestion that joyriding is to be made an offence.
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For example, they may find it exciting when under the influence of alcohol to take a car for the purpose of joyriding.
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I am not talking about the youths who wilfully steal a car and go joyriding.
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Some abandoned cars are the consequence of joyriding and are torched to remove the evidence of who was involved in the theft.
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Joyriding a stolen vehicle is of the essence.
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Is the employer to be liable for an employee who, in the course of a joyride, causes an accident?
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Four people died in the same joyriding accident.
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I agree with what was said about joyriding.
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It could happen that the person who takes a car away without authority finds that he has not enough petrol to continue his joyride.
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In one of them a young man died in a car joyriding incident, and in this case a soldier was seriously injured by the car.
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I am thinking of the escalation of crime, especially joyriding.
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Those who indulge in what is described as "joyriding"— more appropriately called "deathriding"— cause enormous distress to other people.
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There are cases—rare enough but notorious—of teenagers stealing motor cars, driving them round, joyriding; sometimes committing violence with them but quite often not.
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Cars are often stolen for so-called joyrides, which is dangerous because there is no insurance.
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