(noun.) a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.
哈里特编辑
双语例句
In this place is an altar dedicated to St. Dimas, the penitent thief. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
It would have been almost as good as telling him that she was the thief. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
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. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
In the jail also was a half-breed horse-thief. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Suppose the thief had got away by dropping from one of the upper windows, how had he escaped the dogs? 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
He had hinted, beyond the possibility of mistaking him, that he suspected her of being the thief. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
You want him made a thief. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
I was a thief, because my mother went on the streets when I was quite a little girl. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Their motto was in these words, namely, Procrastination is the thief of time. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
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·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Your ladyship's deceased housemaid was at the top of her profession when she was a thief. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
The cattle came upon me with like suddenness, staring out of their eyes, and steaming out of their nostrils, Halloa, young thief! 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
If time, pains, and money can do it, I will lay my hand on the thief who took the Moonstone! 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
This was a nice sort of man to recover Miss Rachel's Diamond, and to find out the thief who stole it! 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
It had fought gamely with floods and droughts, with cholera and panics, with desperadoes and with land thieves. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Besides, I have late experience, that errant thieves are not the worst men in the world to have to deal with. 沃尔特·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. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
Neither shall they be told of such things as thieves or murderers; much less shall they hear anything about falsehood and deceit. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
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.雪莉.
The thieves--the house they took me to! 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
The English author is for hanging _all_ thieves. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Spies and thieves! 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
Our chance of catching the thieves may depend on our not wasting one unnecessary minute. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
I expressed my opinion upon this, that they were a set of murdering thieves. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
It was two thieves with Our Lord. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
They all had the politics of horse thieves. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
My good mistress, like the generous high-bred woman she was, refused to let us be treated like thieves. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
You would like, first, to see the place where the thieves made their attempt, I suppose? 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.