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smuggle

/smuhg-uhl/US // ˈsmʌg əl //UK // (ˈsmʌɡəl) //

走私,偷运,私运,夹带

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v.有主动词 verb
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    smug·gled, smug·gling.

    • : to import or export secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
    • : to bring, take, put, etc., surreptitiously: She smuggled the gun into the jail inside a cake.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    smug·gled, smug·gling.

    • : to import, export, or convey goods surreptitiously or in violation of the law.

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Examples

  • The judge said she had been forced to smuggle drugs to cover the cost of surgery for her ailing son.

  • Just a few days after Chuu smuggled several Write for Right posters out of her apartment, trucks of police and soldiers searched her building several times and she was questioned by police.

  • He was held up on shore by a legal matter and only made it to his assignment aboard the Henrietta by smuggling himself in a casket of champagne.

  • All of this would suggest Bolsonaro’s year-long pandemic blunder is finally catching up to him along with plenty of other scandals, from those involving his family to his environmental minister who was allegedly smuggling illegal timber.

  • She escaped Syria in 2015 as a 17 year old and was smuggled onto a boat headed for Greece.

  • Where are the writers who helped smuggle samizdat out from behind the Iron Curtain?

  • It was a high-tech attempt to smuggle in drugs and phones from the skies over a maximum-security facility.

  • Egypt has blocked the tunnels Hamas formerly used to smuggle goods and weapons into Gaza—and to get its operatives out again.

  • He would smuggle the live birds inside his shirt to get them back to his cell, where he had a killing basin.

  • Rep. Steve King raged that this would allow illegals to “smuggle themselves into the military.”

  • Perhaps he would even have to lurk in the woods, awaiting his opportunity to smuggle his liquor to the men.

  • You will therefore do a meritorious work, if you can smuggle this dead body into the house of the damned Jew of a farmer.

  • I adore his broken English, but how is he going to smuggle letters to me, unless maybe Louisa will continue to help?

  • That Ireland also began in its turn to organize National Volunteers and to smuggle arms.

  • This is what you must do; smuggle me out another way; call another carriage, and take me for a drive and wicked dinner.

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