highway robbery

1. I should have committed highway robbery to get that tax money for you.
   我该去公路上为你抢到那笔税金。
2. That's highway robbery! There is no way I'm paying that high a price.
   那简直是天价！我不可能出那么高的价。
3. I'm not paying that much money for that ring. It's highway robbery.
   我不会花那么多的钱买那枚戒指，简直就是抢劫。
4. That's highway robbery! I can buy the same thing for half the price at the shop down the road!
   简直是敲竹杠！我可以用一半的价钱在这条街的商店里买到同样的东西。
5. Two hundred dollars for one night in a hotel? That's highway robbery!
   在旅馆住一晚上要200美元？简直是漫天要价！
6. In a just society, that bit of highway robbery alone would have been sufficient to leave Bush and his gang of thieves rotting in jail for the rest of their lives.
   在一个正义社会，单单是这个类似抢劫的犯罪就可使“布什帮”那伙贼人蹲在监狱里烂掉了，这辈子也别想出来。
7. Sometimes he listened with dignified interest to details of her businesses, nodding approval at her sagacity, and at other times he called her somewhat dubious tradings scavenging, highway robbery and extortion.
   有时候他很认真的仔细听她述说生意中的各项细节，点头称赞她办事有头脑，有时候他就把她那些不是很正当的做法叫做捡便宜，叫做投机取巧。
8. He put a preoccupation with the opportunity to speak, like a bandit squatting on roadside, ready covetously to a highway robbery.
   他是一个全神贯注寻找发言机会的人，就像一个蹲在路边虎视眈眈准备拦路抢劫的强盗一样。
9. Highway robbery was common in England in Shakespeare's day.
   莎士比亚时代的英国拦路抢劫者很普遍。
10. So, I took to the road, and* the first man I robbed was a parson. What? That's highway robbery.
    于是我做了拦路打劫的强盗。我抢劫的第一个人是个牧师。
11. What I paid for that was highway robbery!
    我为此所付出的钱犹如遭强盗抢一样！
12. This store is highway robbery.
    这店真是够宰人的！
13. The prices in this restaurant are unbelievable? It's highway robbery.
    这家餐馆的价格令人难以置信？简直是在敲竹杠。

noun

1. robbery of travellers on or near a public road

2. an exorbitant price
   1. what they are asking for gas these days is highway robbery