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：
-- No, no!prince, this is finesse, thieves' finesse!This is as good as saying, 'There, how can I be a thief when I leave my address?
-- I'm not concealing my movements as a thief would.'
-- A thief in our family, and the head of the family, too!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had left the horses and the troops behind him, he made all speed on his way, but Ulysses perceived his coming and said to Diomed, 'Diomed, here is some one from the camp; I am not sure whether he is a spy, or whether it is some thief who would plunder the bodies of the dead; let him get a little past us, we can then spring upon him and take him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver, my professor, was a scientific bounder, a journalist by instinct, a thief of ideas he was always prying!And you know the knavish system of the scientific world.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The thief is leaning against the foot of the sugar sapling, that you can see over them bushes; his right leg is in a line with the bark of the tree, and,' tapping his rifle, 'I can take him from where I stand, between the angle and the knee, with a single shot, putting an end to his tramping through the woods, for at least a month to come.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was most in-geniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shut-ters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The grey-headed old man gliding like a ghost into her room and acting the thief while he supposed her fast asleep, then bearing off his prize and hanging over it with the ghastly exultation she had witnessed, was worse immeasurably worse, and far more dreadful, for the moment, to reflect upon than anything her wildest fancy could have suggested.
-- 'Kit a thief!Kit a thief!Ha ha ha!Why, he's an uglier-looking thief than can be seen anywhere for a penny.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am no thief or robber.
-- It is usually thought that a thief or murderer, acknowledging the harmfulness of his occupation, ought to be ashamed of it.
-- Every thief knows that stealing is wrong; that theft is immoral," Ignatius Nikiforovitch said, with the calm, self-confident, and, at the same time, somewhat contemptuous, smile which particularly provoked Nekhludoff.
扩展阅读：