robbery是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 抢劫， 劫掠， 盗取，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wish to say this quite plainly, because the prince hinted a while ago that I too thought it an attempt at robbery and extortion.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.
-- On the day of the robbery a well-dressed gentleman of polished manners, and with a well-to-do air, had been observed going to and fro in the paying room where the crime was committed.
-- On the 28th of last September a robbery of fifty-five thousand pounds was committed at the Bank of England by a person whose description was fortunately secured.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not to speak of the fact that crime has been greatly on the increase among the lower classes during the last five years, not to speak of the cases of robbery and arson everywhere, what strikes me as the strangest thing is that in the higher classes, too, crime is increasing proportionately.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard that the table-beer was a robbery ofparents, and the pudding an imposition.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few confined themselves to hints, such as politely inquiring what red-letter day or saint's day the almanack said it was; a few (these were the profound village politicians) argued that it was a slight to the throne and an affront to church and state, and savoured of revolutionary principles, to grant a half-holiday upon any lighter occasion than the birthday of the Monarch; but the majority expressed their displeasure on private grounds and in plain terms, arguing that to put the pupils on this short allowance of learning was nothing but an act of downright robbery and fraud: and one old lady, finding that she could not inflame or irritate the peaceable schoolmaster by talking to him, bounced out of his house and talked at him for half-an-hour outside his own window, to another old lady, saying that of course he would deduct this half-holiday from his weekly charge, or of course he would naturally expect to have an opposition started against him; there was no want of idle chaps in that neighbourhood (here the old lady raised her voice), and some chaps who were too idle even to be schoolmasters, might soon find that there were other chaps put over their heads, and so she would have them take care, and look pretty sharp about them.
-- 'That young man, sir, that I have felt unbounded and unlimited confidence in, and always behaved to as if he was my equal that young man has this morning committed a robbery in my office, and been taken almost in the fact.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shutters were not closed, nor was any blind or curtain drawn over the window, neither robbery nor observation being a contingency which could do much injury to the occupant of the domicile.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maslova was charged with intentional poisoning of Smelkoff, and with robbery as a motive, while the jury, in their answer, denied her guilt of the robbery, from which it was evident that they intended to acquit her of the intent to kill.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- James Harthouse begged her to take his arm; and as they moved on very slowly, asked her how the robbery had been committed.
-- LOSTThe robbery at the Bank had not languished before, and did not cease to occupy a front place in the attention of the principal of that establishment now.
-- He drew up a placard, offering Twenty Pounds reward for the apprehension of Stephen Blackpool, suspected of complicity in the robbery of Coketown Bank on such a night; he described the said Stephen Blackpool by dress, complexion, estimated height, and manner, as minutely as he could; he recited how he had left the town, and in what direction he had been last seen going; he had the whole printed in great black letters on a staring broadsheet; and he caused the walls to be posted with it in the dead of night, so that it should strike upon the sight of the whole population at one blow.
-- However, thith young man having made it known to be a robbery of a bank, why, that'h a theriouth thing; muth too theriouth a thing for me to compound, ath thith young man hath very properly called it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The robbery was committed by another boy.
-- In reply to this incoherent questioning, the old man informed the deeply affected sister that Oliver had been taken ill in the office, and discharged in consequence of a witness having proved the robbery to have been committed by another boy, not in custody; and that the prosecutor had carried him away, in an insensible condition, to his own residence: of and concerning which, all the informant knew was, that it was somewhere in Pentonville, he having heard that word mentioned in the directions to the coachman.
-- The doctor seemed expecially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by post, a day or two previous.
-- Robbery is the matter.'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Nothing only robbery and murder,' Tom said.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In desperation, he ran to the city and went straight to the courthouse to report the robbery to the magistrate.
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