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smuggling

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

走私,走私行为,走走私,走偷

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Definitions

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

  • He was smuggled into East Berlin while hidden inside a secret compartment of a camper van and later traveled to the Soviet Union.

  • Long was smuggled to the Thai coast by a trafficker who promised to get him a construction job, but the job never materialized.

  • Scammers told some targets that their names had surfaced in a drug-smuggling investigation and asked people to be at their homes in a few minutes because investigators needed to search them.

  • Officers were charged with smuggling drugs, stealing and using cocaine, and tipping off drug dealers.

  • Nestled in the hills are small market towns like Buleda, dominated by Baluch who make a living smuggling diesel and drugs.

  • Ex-hippie Billy Hayes was busted for smuggling hash and thrown in a terrifying Turkish prison.

  • The Gorge has always been a hotbed of radicalism and arms smuggling, but now it is fast becoming a shahid factory.

  • Smuggling diesel into Turkey is a major source of ISIS revenue.

  • A Peruvian court subsequently convicted him of smuggling $150,000 out of the country and he was given a two-year prison sentence.

  • But I reckon the smuggling of Chinks into this section has been pretty well discouraged.

  • The long line of frontier will render all your attempts to prevent this smuggling unavailing.

  • Something of it, I fear, must be imputed to the extraordinary profits of the smuggling which is carried on along the coast.

  • The tobacco smuggling from Gibraltar keeps alive a lawless class which sinks easily into pure brigandage.

  • This summary action would seem entirely unjustifiable, as smuggling is not a capital offence under any civilised law.