抢劫 | qiǎng jié | to rob; looting | |
劫持 | jié chí | to kidnap; to hijack; to abduct; to hold under duress | |
浩劫 | hào jié | calamity; catastrophe; apocalypse | |
劫难 | jié nàn | calamity | |
劫机 | jié jī | hijacking; air piracy |
1 | He was robbed a month ago, and he knows a Somali shopkeeper who was also robbed and then shot by the perpetrators. | |
2 | But two did survive, a mother and her daughter, and the daughter had written a book about the camp and the march west and published it in America. | |
3 | I heard the Sergeant on the radio. He said some armed robbers snatched the official vehicle of a Commissioner and that they needed to make a quick arrest. | |
4 | There was no hijacking, and he is not a pirate. | |
5 | As the Arab Spring turns into the Arab Summer, North Korea may find it has dodged a bullet, but stemming the cross-border flow of information may grow increasingly difficult over the long term. |