| 英语单词 | mobster |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['mɒbstə(r)] 美 ['mɑːbstər] |
| 中文释义 | n.盗匪(犯罪集团一员) |
| 英语例句 | (1) A couple of mobsters were rubbed out in a fracas with the law. (2) The mobster stormed in and broke all the glasses of the window. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 几个暴徒在与警方喧闹的斗争中丧命。 (2) 歹徒横冲直撞闯了进来砸了窗上所有的玻璃。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A mobster is a bad guy who's involved in organized crime or belongs to a gang. There are many movies about mobsters that take place in the 1920s and 30s. |
| vocabulary扩展 | As opposed to individual criminals, members of crime syndicates and gangs belong to a large, structured criminal organization. Someone who belongs to such a group is a mobster or a gangster. The term mobster comes from mob, another name for the Mafia, an Italian organized crime group. Originally mob meant just "a large group of people" or "the common people," from the Latin phrase mobile vulgus, "fickle common people." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]犯罪集团分子;黑社会成员 A mobster is someone who is a member of an organized group of violent criminals. |
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