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 robber ['rɒbә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 强盗, 盗贼



    robber
    [ noun ]
    a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence
    <noun.person>


    Robber \Rob"ber\, n.
    One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or
    money from the person of another by violence or by putting
    him in fear.

    Some roving robber calling to his fellows. --Milton.

    Syn: Thief; depredator; despoiler; plunderer; pillager;
    rifler; brigang; freebooter; pirate. See {Thief}.

    {Robber crab}. (Zo["o]l.)
    (a) A purse crab.
    (b) Any hermit crab.

    {Robber fly}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Hornet fly}, under
    {Hornet}.

    {Robber gull} (Zo["o]l.), a jager gull.

    1. I don't want to go up there anymore." The sobbing boy ran to a police car at a nearby gas station, then he and the officers drove around the neighborhood looking for the robber.
    2. In the inmate case, the high court overturned a Washington State Supreme Court ruling in 1988 that convicted robber Walter Harper, diagnosed as schizophrenic, must be given a court hearing before anti-psychotic drugs are administered to him.
    3. The agent ordered the robber to drop his weapon and shot him when he refused, and the fleeing gunman dropped both the money and his weapon as he ran outside.
    4. By stopping to ensure an ambulance was called before making his getaway, the robber left the bank convinced that he would be judged a popular hero rather than a villain. Well, not quite.
    5. Kings or cardinals or robber knights or the Hermandad, the powerful organisation of 'brotherhoods' that originated as a militia policing the regions and doubled as a national tax-collecting agency?
    6. After the stabbing, the second robber dragged his wounded friend into another car on the subway train, but left him there bleeding and fled when the train pulled into a station, O'Leary said.
    7. A robber who shot a convenience store clerk to death was executed Wednesday in Mississippi's gas chamber, insisting to the last that he was convicted unfairly because of racial discrimination.
    8. Jake is only an amateur bank robber.
    9. One robber may pay for his crime with his life, while another stealing a similar sum gets a prison sentence.
    10. Brown, who's black, was confronted by Wellesley police who had mistaken him for a bank robber Sept. 21.
    11. The unidentified agent was showing bank photographs of the first robber to employees at an AmeriFirst Bank branch when a gunman walked in, said William Gavin, agent in charge of the Miami office.
    12. The transition economy robber barons base their profits on privileged access to low-priced materials, substantial and cheap credits, trade licenses (hence monopoly rights), and so on.
    13. Ray Ball was watching the news with his wife, Twyla, when the would-be robber came to the door.
    14. Like the robber barons of 19th-century America, they are trying to maintain control over everything from the cost of materials to the final prices that stores charge.
    15. This subtle hint led 97% of the students to identify a person in the lineup as the robber, even though the real robber wasn't present in many of the lineups.
    16. This subtle hint led 97% of the students to identify a person in the lineup as the robber, even though the real robber wasn't present in many of the lineups.
    17. A bank robber making a getaway took four employees hostage, then ordered them to lie side by side in a field and drove his car over two of them, killing one and seriously injuring another, police said.
    18. Legge lifted his March 1989 order that prohibited enforcement of the regulations against Dannie Martin, a convicted bank robber who has written more than 40 bylined essays on prison life and conditions for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1986.
    19. Although a close inspection of the tape showed what appeared to be a weapon being drawn, the teller who faced the robber betrayed no sign that anything out of the ordinary was taking place.
    20. When Mitchell resisted, the robber shot him once in the heart and fled.
    21. In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.
    22. The robber captivated the Israeli public by holding up 22 banks and making off on a motorcycle.
    23. Convicted bank robber turned businessman Delbert Dunmire donated $300,000 worth of high-powered assault rifles Friday to the Highway Patrol.
    24. Professional criminals are multiplying in a "renaissance of robber traditions," and organized crime benefits from the new atmosphere, it said.
    25. The disguised robber hopped into a brown Volkswagen Jetta driven by the second man and escaped on a nearby highway, Hughes said.
    26. A convicted robber held a judge hostage for four hours after she gave him an eight-year prison sentence, news reports said Saturday.
    27. The robber grabbed the cash, put the other pistol on the counter and headed for the door but couldn't open it.
    28. Ronald Reagan terminated a work furlough program after a convicted armed robber and a convicted forger on work furlough robbed a couple in Orange County in 1972, killing one of the robbery victims.
    29. Critics say Lorenzo, the one-time wonder boy of the airline industry unions now label a "robber baron," isn't fazed by the prospect of bankruptcy after a 17-month management-labor slugfest.
    30. "It's like a bank robber who robs in a number of jurisdictions," says Mary Spearing, deputy director of the Justice obscenity unit.
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