Gunpoint的意思|Gunpoint的解释-里氏词典

gunpoint ['gʌn`pɔɪnt]

n. 枪口

He is forced at gunpoint to open the safe.
他在枪口的威胁下被迫去打开保险柜。
The masked robber made her open the safe at gunpoint.
那蒙面强盗用枪逼着她打开保险箱。
We were robbed at gunpoint.
我们是在枪口的威胁下被抢劫的。

gunpoint

[ noun ]
the gun muzzle's direction
<noun.artifact>
he held me up at the point of a gun

gunpoint \gun"point\ n.
1. the muzzle's direction; as, he held me up at gunpoint.

Syn: point.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. the open discharging end of a gun.

Syn: gun muzzle, muzzle.
[WordNet 1.5]

Leon J. Perelman, 77, operated the Perelman Toy Museum in Philadelphia until a robbery in August in which a caretaker was bound and held at gunpoint by two men.
Alvaro Diego Montoya had been abducted at gunpoint from his office Dec. 20 in Bogota.
Captured at gunpoint and moved to Iraq, he spent three months as a human shield in a refinery outside Baghdad.
Police say Linares, 23, held off hospital workers at gunpoint, unhooked his son's respirator and cradled the boy until he died.
Michael Day, 31, of Athens, took two guards hostage at gunpoint and escaped Sunday in a prison jeep, said spokesman Robert Prosser of the medium-security Ross Correctional Institute.
After Gurney shot Whittemore, she said, her ex-husband forced her at gunpoint into her car.
Also Wednesday, Sikh separatists in Punjab state shot and killed seven bus passengers after hijacking the vehicle at gunpoint, police said today.
The Wangs have kept a low profile but were unwillingly thrust into the spotlight in 1983, when Mr. Wang was kidnapped at gunpoint by four men while driving to work.
They said they were robbed of gold and jewellery at gunpoint and their possessions looted.
They round up curfew violators at gunpoint, hustling them down the streets to gathering points and packing them into city dumptrucks headed for a volleyball arena.
Cards, calls and compassion were pouring in Friday for the desperate young father who held hospital workers at gunpoint as he removed his comatose baby son from life-support systems and held him till he died.
The search for an 11-year-old boy who was abducted at gunpoint last week intensified after a motorist reported seeing a young man and a boy in a car stopped along a road, the FBI said.
He is accused of abducting and raping at gunpoint an 11-year-old Lapeer girl in 1986 and a 13-year-old Lapeer girl in 1987.
Walraven said Addis fired the rifle over the heads of students in a civics class shortly before 8:30 a.m. A teacher wrestled the rifle away, but Addis pulled a pistol and held about 40 students at gunpoint.
She held the intruder at gunpoint until the police arrived several minutes later.
"The person we believe to be Bridges took his car to the place to be repaired and, instead of paying, took the car away at gunpoint," said Deputy District Attorney Patti Ryan.
The official Burmese news agency said the plane was hijacked between Mergui in southern Burma and Rangoon, the capital, then diverted at gunpoint to Thailand.
Two paintings by Dutch masters Frans Hals and Jacob van Ruisdael were stolen at gunpoint from a small museum early Thursday, police said.
Three Belgians have been arrested and charged with possession of $4 million worth of Renaissance paintings stolen at gunpoint from a Swiss art gallery last month.
"They opened the door and the people were there at gunpoint," Bank executive Mark Wright said.
A report by three human rights groups in October compared the plight of the Haitian braceros to slavery, saying they are being held on the Dominican plantations at gunpoint.
A 17-year-old high school student held a teacher and six students at gunpoint in a classroom Monday, gradually freeing them before surrending to police eight hours later.
He maintained he was forced at gunpoint to take part in the escape.
Although no Americans have been injured, the wives of U.S. Ambassador James K. Bishop and of another diplomat were recently robbed at gunpoint.
Prisoners apparently held guards at gunpoint, Excelsior quoted Miller as saying.
On Nov. 26, the Schultzes sat outside a Kenneth City restaurant while the two teens and a runaway they had picked up took $3,000-$4,000 at gunpoint, Drone said.
In July, the Red Beret presidential guard seized at least 36 four-wheel drive vehicles at gunpoint from Western organizations.
Three police intelligence agents stopped their van at gunpoint.
A fisherman reeling in his hook found sticks of dynamite instead of a fish, and that led to a search in which police believe they have recovered dynamite stolen last month at gunpoint.
He said they were forced to kneel on the road at gunpoint.

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