burgling v. 入室偷窃,破门盗窃(burgle 的现在分词)
- The Grinch vows to spoil Christmas and goes burgling every Who house, dressed as Santa Clause and flying a rocket-powered sled he banged together from junkyard scrap.
“圣诞怪杰”发誓要彻底破坏圣诞节, 他打扮成圣诞老人, 骑着用废铜兰铁敲打出来的雪橇, 到每个镇上人的家里偷盗。 - Users of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have been warned by police after two men were convicted of burgling a house whose owners had advertised the fact they were away.
日前,两名入室偷窃的盗贼承认,他们是在社交网页上得知房主离开住处才敢公然行窃的,警方由此告诫Facebook和Twitter这类社交网站用户要小心了。 - His skill as an engineer was misapplied to burgling safes.
他把一个工程师所拥有的技能滥用来盗窃保险箱。