| 单词 | steal |
| 释义 | steal I. 1. dialect Britain 2. dialect Britain II. intransitive verb 1. < you shall not steal — Exod 20:15 (Revised Standard Version) > 2. a. < he stole quietly out of the picture for ever — Richard Harrison > b. < stole over at twilight for an inconspicuous inspection — Margaret Janes > c. < a tear stole down her cheek > < the months stole on > 3. a. < the white, soft light that steals upon half sleep near morning — Scott Fitzgerald > < shall we steal upon them … at supper — Shakespeare > b. < anxiety was stealing over her as if it emanated from her surroundings — Ellen Glasgow > < into her cheeks stole a lovely color — Edison Marshall > 4. of a base runner < are allowed to steal without a signal — M.F.Mallette > transitive verb 1. a. < stole a car from a parking lot > < stole money from the cash register > < who steals my purse steals trash — Shakespeare > b. < stole the formula and began to manufacture the product himself > : plagiarize < his jokes were borrowed and stolen all over the country — Eleanor M. Sickels > < stole nearly all his plots — Agnes de Mille > c. < they've stolen our liberty from us, and we'll never get it back — Kenneth Roberts > < had stolen the nomination from him — A.S.Link > d. archaic < such incidents as the child stolen by gypsies — E.A.Poe > e. < stole a kiss from her before she could protest > f. < the various gyrations have been stolen from boxing, basketball, track — This Week Magazine > g. < has to occupy the center of the stage and steal the act — Constance Foster > < the young ladies steal most of the limelight — O.S.Nock > 2. a. < stole a hand into hers — Rumer Godden > < watching for an opportunity to steal their egg into some nest — John Burroughs > b. < stole several glances at him with a curiosity very natural under the circumstances — Joseph Conrad > c. < might even steal a visit — G.B.Shaw > 3. < felt he was stealing the time and using it for frivolous thoughts — Virginia D. Dawson & Betty D. Wilson > < stealing time off from her other clients to flit in and out of the workrooms — P.E.Deutschman > 4. a. < this savage who stole your allegiance from me — T.B.Costain > < the obligation to refrain from deliberately stealing each other's clients — H.S.Drinker > b. < shorter wind, paunches, and hardened arteries had begun to steal away their lust for life — Dixon Wecter > 5. < a basketball player adept at stealing the ball from his opponents > < show folks know how to steal that extra bow — Goodman Ace > < a shrewd poker player who steals many pots > as a. of a base runner b. baseball < false moves calculated to keep the enemy from stealing the genuine sign — A.J.Daley > c. 6. of a hen a. b. Synonyms: < steal a pocketbook > < steal jewels > < steal a kiss > < steal a glance at someone > pilfer suggests stealing in small amounts < the pantry mouse that pilfers our food — Conservation in the U.S. > < the ladies of unexceptionable position who are caught pilfering furs in shops — L.P.Smith > < pilfer the secret files of the foreign office — H.J.Morgenthau > filch is close to pilfer but suggests more strongly the use of surreptitious means, especially quick snatching < the pursuit of a thief who had filched an overcoat — McKenzie Porter > < a lot of fellows were too hungry to wait, and so some of the rations were filched — Asa Autry > < a bulky, dark youth in spectacles … filching biscuits from a large tin — Dorothy Sayers > purloin usually shifts the stress onto the idea of removal or making away with for one's own use, often becoming generalized to include such acts as plundering or plagiarism < had purloined $386,920 from the New York realty management firm for which he worked, then absconded — Time > < added theft to her other sin, and having found your watch in your bedroom had purloined it — Samuel Butler †1902 > < I hope to quote him is not to purloin — John Dryden > lift, when it does not mean specifically to steal by surreptitiously taking from counters or displays in stores, is used frequently in spoken English in the sense of purloin < women shoplifters often work in gangs of three. Two act as shields while the third does the lifting — Irish Digest > < lift money from the cash register > < imitators who lifted everything except the shirt off his back — Scott Fitzgerald > pinch, swipe, snitch, and cop are virtually interchangeable with filch. pinch and swipe are often used in place of steal to suggest an act morally less reprehensible < loot having been pinched by him from the British ship Mary Dyer — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > < well-dressed crooks really did steal the Gold Cup at Ascot … drove up in a handsome car … and pinched the cup out of the Royal Enclosure — J.D.Carr > < the bloke who pinched my photographs — Richard Llewellyn > < hovering outside the dying butler's bedroom waiting to … pop in and swipe the old man's private notebooks — Time > snitch possibly stresses more the removal by quick, furtive snatching < while he was bathing, somebody snitched his uniform — P.G.Wodehouse > < snitched people's ideas without telling them — Dorothy Sayers > cop usually lays stress upon quick, often spur-of-the-moment filching or purloining < some woman put on a dinner gown, mingled with guests, copped fifty thousand bucks in jewelry — Erle Stanley Gardner > < ran home and copped a piece of beefsteak from his old lady — J.T.Farrell > • - steal a march - steal one's thunder III. 1. a. < his hand went out and picked up the shears as if he had had that steal in mind for many years — Wright Morris > b. < thrown out on an attempted steal > 2. < this is the real steal of the last 10 years — New Republic > 3. < was prepared to let it go, though it was a steal at the price, for ten dollars — Reed Whittemore > |
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