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/ˈbɜːrɡləri/ · /ˈbɜːɡləri/
the crime of getting into a building, especially someone's home, in order to steal the things inside it.
闖空門；侵入竊盜
複數 burglaries
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…更多收起
「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。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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/
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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.
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lawThe crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.
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lawThe crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。