| 词汇 | burglary |
| 释义 | burglary noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈbɜː.ɡlər.i/ us /ˈbɝː.ɡlɚ.i/ B2 the crime of illegally entering a building and stealing things入室盗窃（罪） Several men were questioned by police yesterday about the burglary.警方昨天就盗窃案审问了几个人。 Simpson, aged 19, was convicted on two charges of burglary. The latest crime figures show a sharp rise in burglaries.最新的犯罪数据表明，入室盗窃案急剧增加。 Police are investigating a spate of burglaries in the Kingsland Road area.警方正在调查最近在金斯兰德路周边地区接连发生的多起入室盗窃案。 Many people in the neighbourhood have been victims of burglary at least once. Stealing abscond abscond with someone/something aggravated burglary anti-burglar anti-burglary eavesdrop housebreaking jemmy jimmy job joyride plunder poach poaching porch piracy purloin rustle rustling snaffle snitch Every considerable dwelling in this neighbourhood has been entered, and I have no doubt you are the men who committed all the burglaries. If they are prevented working for six weeks, it might lead them to procure support for their wives and children by burglary, larceny or highway robbery. In law if the word burglary is used in the indictment, the defense, in order to quash the charge, need show merely that a door was unlocked. Robbery and burglary are generally counted as crimes of violence, but they should be properly classed under property crimes. Where is the document you took from my uncle's desk on the night of the burglary? burglary | American Dictionaryburglary noun[ C/U ] us/ˈbɜr·ɡlə·ri/ the crime of illegally entering a building and stealing things: [ C ]He committed more than a dozen burglaries in the last year. burglary | Business Englishburglary noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈbɜːɡləri/uspluralburglaries LAW the crime of illegally entering a building and stealing things: The maximum jail sentence for aggravated burglary is 14 years. Insurers are getting tougher on customers who make claims after burglaries. Examples of burglaryburglary Poverty may have seemed a safer alternative to wealth and burglary. Examples of aggravated larceny included highway robbery, burglary, attacks by footpads and piracy. Note that the frequency of three words placed them in the high-frequency group (burglary, specific, stethoscope). The figures show burglary rising at the end of the war, but generally remaining below the pre-war level. However, most car crime, and some domestic burglary, is opportunistic. By contrast, the contemporary local community was commonly associated with stories of isolation, vandalism, burglary and harassment. The tenants also suffered from a mysterious burglary where nothing was taken but a terrible mess was made. While for automobile, burglary and fire insurance these consequences appear to be 'socially acceptable', for health insurance this is not the case. Even more than in other parts of the country, property offences predominated, particularly petty theft, but also violent offences such as burglary and robbery. The burglary was not too difficult as the guards were regularly asleep in the early hours of the morning. Data about offenders, victims and the situation are analysed to predict the risk of burglaries and to predict the features of burglars in the form of offender profiles. They said they felt threatened by burglary and by attack in the street after dark and had security systems installed subsequent to the deaths of their partners. In contrast, teens who prefer more covert ways of acting out lie, shoplift, vandalize, cut school, and progress to fraud, theft, burglary, and more serious crimes. The window and the door were both bolted which was the usual practice apparently to prevent burglary and 'the air was quite foul'. The owner of an apple stall lost a linen smock and linen shirt, a silk handkerchief and a half yard of lace in the burglary of her family home. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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