喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈbɜːrɡləri/ · /ˈbɜːɡləri/闖空門；侵入竊盜

    the crime of getting into a building, especially someone's home, in order to steal the things inside it.

    示範例句 · Example

    Burglary is a serious crime.

    逐字闖空門是一項嚴重的犯罪。

    burglary 講的是「跑進別人的房子或店裡偷東西」這種犯罪，重點在「進去」這一步——所以英文常搭配 break into（闖進）。可以想成：burglar 是「闖進屋子偷東西的人」，他做的事就叫 burglary。它跟 robbery（當著人的面把錢或東西拿走）、theft（單純把東西拿走，人不一定在場）差在哪裡？burglary 一定牽涉到「進到一棟建築物裡面」。可數不可數都可以用：Burglary is common here（不可數，指這種犯罪）、three burglaries（可數，指三起案件）。

    常見搭配

    • commit burglary

      犯下侵入竊盜罪

      to do the crime of getting into a building to steal things

      Anyone who commits burglary can be sent to prison.

    • be charged with burglary

      被以侵入竊盜罪起訴

      to be officially accused by the police of this crime

      Two men were charged with burglary last week.

    • report a burglary

      報案（報告闖空門）

      to tell the police that a burglary has happened

      Mei's father reported the burglary as soon as he saw the open window.

    • a series of burglaries

      一連串的闖空門案件

      several burglaries that happen one after another, probably done by the same person

      The police are looking into a series of burglaries in the town.

    • attempted burglary

      闖空門未遂

      a burglary that someone tried to do but did not finish

      It was only an attempted burglary — nothing was taken.

    • burglaries occur / happen

      闖空門案件發生

      burglaries take place

      Fewer burglaries occur in streets where neighbours know each other.

    意思相近

    break-inhousebreakinghome invasion

core核心畫面

A picture to hold: someone gets inside a building that isn't theirs — a house, a shop — and takes what's in it. The crime is about the getting in as much as the taking.

「有人進到不屬於他的建築物裡，把裡面的東西拿走」。重點有兩層：一層是「侵入」——闖進別人的家、店面、辦公室；另一層是「偷」——進去的目的就是拿東西。中文說「闖空門」抓得很準，因為這個字的典型場景是屋主不在家的時候被撬開門窗。它跟 robbery 的差別值得記住：robbery 是當著人面用威脅或暴力搶，burglary 通常沒有正面衝突，是趁沒人的時候潛進去。

同家族的字

複數 burglaries

意思相近

break-inhousebreakinghome invasion

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

burglarynoun/ˈbɜː.ɡlə.ɹi/

  • 1

    The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.

    • Essentially, Jarden makes anything that you’d find left behind after a burglary.
    • It’s hard to say whether Corona was actually playing pickleball or was just nowhere near Slowjamastan at the time of the burglary and thinks it’s funny to say he was playing pickleball.
  • 2

    lawThe crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.

  • 3

    lawThe crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。