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 robbery ['rɒbәri]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 抢掠, 抢夺

[法] 强盗, 抢劫, 劫掠




    robbery
    [ noun ]
    1. larceny by threat of violence

    2. <noun.act>
    3. plundering during riots or in wartime

    4. <noun.act>


    Robbery \Rob"ber*y\, n.; pl. {Robberies}. [OF. roberie.]
    1. The act or practice of robbing; theft.

    Thieves for their robbery have authority
    When judges steal themselves. --Shak.

    2. (Law) The crime of robbing. See {Rob}, v. t., 2.

    Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it
    is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is
    committed by stealth, or privately.

    Syn: Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation;
    despoilment; plunder; pillage; rapine; larceny;
    freebooting; piracy.

    1. Austin was killed by New York City police in a shoot-out in 1971 following a bank robbery.
    2. Cezar was booked on first-degree robbery, criminal mischief and criminal trespassing, said police Sgt. Greg Phares.
    3. Leon J. Perelman, 77, operated the Perelman Toy Museum in Philadelphia until a robbery in August in which a caretaker was bound and held at gunpoint by two men.
    4. The robbery was believed carried out by a radical revolutionary group.
    5. In fact, the man had been in prison for armed robbery.
    6. He was released in the early 1980s but subsequently was arrested in the United States on charges of rape and armed robbery, the DEA said without giving the outcome of those cases.
    7. When the athletes learned that playing dice was also an easy way to lose money, some turned to armed robbery, the students said.
    8. After a hectic car chase through the outskirts of Turin, police arrested a man suspected of armed robbery.
    9. Humphreys obtained information that was instrumental in the release of Lenell Geter, an engineer from South Carolina who spent two years in Texas prisons for a robbery before another suspect was identified.
    10. The court, without comment, let stand a Montana law used to add 10 years to the 30-year prison sentence given a man who brandished a gun during a pizza shop robbery.
    11. The suspects, in their late teens or early 20s, were charged with murder and robbery and were held without bail.
    12. Others hailed Goetz as a hero who resisted a robbery.
    13. And four out of 10 Americans will be injured in a robbery or assault.
    14. The government has recovered more gold, jade and stone artifacts that were stolen from the National Museum of Archaeology in a daring Christmas Day robbery in 1985, an official said.
    15. A search of the home of Stefano Frizzon, 30, turned up items linked with the robbery of the painting, the Italian news agency ANSA said.
    16. The four students, arrested last week, face charges including auto theft, aggravated battery, armed robbery and tampering with evidence.
    17. Renamed Tania, she took part in an armed bank robbery and stayed with the SLA for 18 months before the FBI arrested her in 1975.
    18. Mathews outlined six goals for Order members, including developing a war chest through illegal means such as robbery and counterfeiting, Parmenter said.
    19. In August 1989, she came upon a robbery report involving a familiar M.O.: A Houston hotel guest had been held up by an especially courtly stranger.
    20. A second participant in the earlier robbery was arrested outside the McDonald's as the standoff began, authorities said.
    21. Jared Layne Gray, 26, appeared just before 1 a.m. Monday to confess to the May 5 robbery.
    22. Police gave a job application to an unarmed bank security guard who chased and tackled a man later booked for investigation of robbery Saturday, authorities said.
    23. A soldier was arrested Tuesday night in connection with the fatal shootings of two taxi drivers by a gunman who then bit a third driver on the hand and face during a robbery attempt, authorities said.
    24. Aycox had been serving concurrent 8-to-20-year terms for armed robbery and assault.
    25. No one was injured in the robbery at Dolly Don Quixote Jewelers, Officer Don Lawrence said.
    26. Lee has been arrested several times and been convicted of armed robbery and cocaine possession with intent to deliver, police said. He did not have any cocaine on him at the time of the shooting, they said.
    27. A man has been charged with robbery after he allegedly held a hypodermic needle next to a woman's neck and threatened to give her AIDS if she did not hand over her jewelry.
    28. Reagan was asked Sunday on his return to the White House from Camp David whether he planned to pardon Ms. Hearst, who received a seven-year sentence for participating in the armed robbery of a San Francisco bank.
    29. As for the crimes that landed them in prison, about 27 percent of the inmates had committed a homicide and 38 percent had committed a robbery, most of them armed.
    30. Earl Clanton Jr. went quietly to his death in the electric chair Thursday night for strangling a neighbor during a 1980 robbery.
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