To engage in various forms of theft, both overt and covert; to openly plunder and secretly pilfer.
那些不法分子总是明抢暗偷，让附近居民提心吊胆，日夜不安。
Those unscrupulous individuals always engage in both open robbery and secret pilfering, making the nearby residents live in fear day and night.
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Modern
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