thief是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 贼； 小偷，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shall I tell how I became a thief on one occasion only, to convince Afanasy Ivanovitch that it is possible to steal without being a thief?'
-- He is mad with suspicion, and sees a thief in every corner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Truly, you did well,' said the Marquis, felicitously sen-sible that such vermin were not to ruffle him, 'to see a thief 162 A tale of two citiesaccompanying my carriage, and not open that great mouth of yours.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait."
-- Moreover, he lived in a district town, and he was longing to tell how one soldier had volunteered from his town, a drunkard and a thief whom no one would employ as a laborer.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were real grounds for supposing, as the Daily Telegraph said, that the thief did not belong to a professional band.
-- And that is why the search for this thief will be more likely to succeed."
-- "And also why the thief can get away more easily."
-- I've arrested more than one of these gentlemen in my time, and, if my thief is on board, I'll answer for it; he'll not slip through my fingers."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, then, sir' (Marmeladov suddenly gave a sort of start, raised his head and gazed intently at his lis-tener) 'well, on the very next day after all those dreams, that is to say, exactly five days ago, in the evening, by a cunning trick, like a thief in the night, I stole from Katerina Ivanov-na the key of her box, took out what was left of my earnings, how much it was I have forgotten, and now look at me, all of you!It's the fifth day since I left home, and they are look-ing for me there and it's the end of my employment, and my uniform is lying in a tavern on the Egyptian bridge.
-- The thief has been more than unmasked, and I shall pros-ecute.
-- A thief steals and knows he is a scoundrel, but I've heard of a gentleman who broke open the mail.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Route came from Government like a thief in the night, as is his nature to, and afore the Eleventh knew it almost, they were on the march.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing but my devotion to you would make me, at this stage of my career, turn horse thief and thief of such a horse.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then,' said the man, 'go with me, and I will teach you to become the cunningest thief that ever was.'
-- So the cunning thief climbed up the tree, and brought away to his father the five eggs from under the bird; and it never saw or felt what he was doing, but kept sitting on at its ease.
-- Then the tailor took his needle, and sewed the eggs as he was told; and when he had done, the thief was sent to take them back 255to the nest, and put them under the bird without its know-ing it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Young lady,' said Rachael, 'Stephen Blackpool is now named as a thief in public print all over this town, and where else!There have been a meeting to-night where he have been spoken of in the same shameful way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He, the uncouth object of such wide-spread adulation, the sitter at great men's feasts, the roc's egg of great ladies' assemblies, the subduer of exclusiveness, the leveller of pride, the patron of patrons, the bargain-driver with a Minister for Lordships of the Circumlocution Office, the recipient of more acknowledgment within some ten or fifteen years, at most, than had been bestowed in England upon all peaceful public benefactors, and upon all the leaders of all the Arts and Sciences, with all their works to testify for them, during two centuries at least he, the shining wonder, the new constellation to be followed by the wise men bringing gifts, until it stopped over a certain carrion at the bottom of a bath and disappeared was simply the greatest Forger and the greatest Thief that ever cheated the gallows.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver coloured, involuntarily, to find that the old thief had been reading his thoughts; but boldly said, Yes, he did want to know.
-- said the doctor; 'well, I don't know; perhaps it's as honourable to hit a thief in a back kitchen, as to hit your man at twelve paces.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, but a thief hardly six years old, with a face like an angel's.
-- They are no longer safe when such an accomplished thief enters."
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That sly thief had fallen into deepest poverty, and one day he had been forced to sell his beautiful tail for a bite to eat.
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