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A mugging is the attack: someone is stopped in a public place and robbed, often with a shove or a threat. Police and newspapers use the word for the event. The person who does it is a ; the verb is to mug. It is serious, everyday crime English, not a joke in its main use. Though actually, people sometimes say “I got mugged” about a painful bill or a very high price, as a dark little joke — that stretch is informal and is not a real street attack. Keep the core picture: public place, person, things taken under fear.
當街搶劫(指這件事,不是指搶的那個人)
原始詞典資料2 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。
muggingnoun/ˈmʌɡɪŋ/
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A quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place.
- There have been three muggings in this street in the past week.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。