2020-01-02
7 分钟Hi there, and welcome back to our podcasts.
We're going to continue with podcasts relating to collocations and crime.
And as always, we're trying to help you to understand English a little better, trying to help you to communicate a little better and use, in this case, collocations and other expressions that you hopefully will find useful.
So we're going to continue with the collocations on crime.
The first one is to commit crime.
To commit crime.
So we use this as a.
The verb to commit.
Okay.
And to commit means to carry out or simply to do so.
The police are interested in finding the person who committed the crime last night, whether that was a robbery or a burglary or whatever it might have been, or they're trying to encourage young people to take up some sports or other activities so they don't get encouraged by other people to commit crimes.
Okay, so to commit is the act of doing, the act of carrying out that particular crime.
Next, collocation to combat crime or to tackle crime.
Exactly the same meaning, combat or tackle crime.
So again, as we're talking about crime, there are obviously a lot of references to police and police forces and government actions and laws.
So all of these are come together to try and combat crime.
So the police, of course, are trying all the time to cut down on the crime rate, to reduce the crime rate.
So to combat crime, they introduce many initiatives.
Well, it might be stop and search, which is the powers that some police forces have in some cities where they can stop anybody at any time and search them to see if they're carrying illegal weapons or weapons that might be used to commit a crime.
So they combat crime in many, many ways.