Thief
[θiːf] or [θif]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.
哈里特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
(n.) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
手打:萨拜娜
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Pickpocket, shop-lifter, thief, pilferer, cutpurse, petty robber.
尤金校對
解釋/意思:
n. one who steals or takes unlawfully what is not his own.—ns. Thief′-catch′er -tā′ker one whose business is to detect thieves and bring them to justice: a detective.
手打:劳里
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of being a thief and that you are pursued by officers, is a sign that you will meet reverses in business, and your social relations will be unpleasant. If you pursue or capture a thief, you will overcome your enemies. See Stealing.
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例句/造句/用法:
- In this place is an altar dedicated to St. Dimas, the penitent thief. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It would have been almost as good as telling him that she was the thief. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But it is a little silly for an agitator to cry thief when the success of his agitation has led to the adoption of his ideas. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In the jail also was a half-breed horse-thief. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Suppose the thief had got away by dropping from one of the upper windows, how had he escaped the dogs? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He had hinted, beyond the possibility of mistaking him, that he suspected her of being the thief. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- You want him made a thief. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I was a thief, because my mother went on the streets when I was quite a little girl. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Their motto was in these words, namely, Procrastination is the thief of time. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Great movements of the racial soul come at first like a thief in the night, and then suddenly are discovered to be powerful and world-wide. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Your ladyship's deceased housemaid was at the top of her profession when she was a thief. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The cattle came upon me with like suddenness, staring out of their eyes, and steaming out of their nostrils, Halloa, young thief! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- If time, pains, and money can do it, I will lay my hand on the thief who took the Moonstone! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- This was a nice sort of man to recover Miss Rachel's Diamond, and to find out the thief who stole it! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It had fought gamely with floods and droughts, with cholera and panics, with desperadoes and with land thieves. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Besides, I have late experience, that errant thieves are not the worst men in the world to have to deal with. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Neither shall they be told of such things as thieves or murderers; much less shall they hear anything about falsehood and deceit. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Really, if anybody was to come--thieves or anything--I believe I should enjoy it, such is my spirit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The thieves--the house they took me to! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The English author is for hanging _all_ thieves. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Spies and thieves! 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Our chance of catching the thieves may depend on our not wasting one unnecessary minute. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I expressed my opinion upon this, that they were a set of murdering thieves. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It was two thieves with Our Lord. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- They all had the politics of horse thieves. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- My good mistress, like the generous high-bred woman she was, refused to let us be treated like thieves. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- You would like, first, to see the place where the thieves made their attempt, I suppose? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
手打:斯蒂芬