steal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 偷， 窃取； 偷偷地做， 巧取，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suppose you're married, you love your wife, but you're fascinated by another woman..." "Excuse me, but I'm absolutely unable to comprehend how...just as I can't comprehend how I could now, after my dinner, go straight to a baker's shop and steal a roll."
-- "Don't steal rolls."
-- "Oh, how can you steal upon anyone like that!How you startled me!"
-- I didn't pick it up on the ground, nor steal it either."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Because you all haf schoolboy minds, golf-links minds, you are twisting my expression, and perfectly accurate expression, of a sound revolutionary ideal, which would personally to me be of no value or advantage whatefer, into a desire to steal promotions.
-- "I do not care what you do--if you just do not steal my staph cultures out of the ice-box, and if you will look mysterious all the time, so Dr. Tubbs, our Director, will t'ink you are up to something big.
-- And if you need ice bags and stuff-- And I'll HAVE ice, too, if I have to sneak into some millionaire's house and steal it out of his highballs!My dear!"
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：
-- he cried, 'can it be, can it be, that I shall re-ally take an axe, that I shall strike her on the head, split her skull open 芒聙娄 that I shall tread in the sticky warm blood, break the lock, steal and tremble; hide, all spattered in the blood 芒聙娄 with the axe芒聙娄.
-- He had still the most important thing to do to steal the axe from the kitchen.
-- But it does not follow from that that Newton had a right to murder people right and left and to steal every day in the market.
-- 'Not to steal and not to murder, don't be anxious,' he smiled bitterly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I cameinto the room where they were, and they were talking together andmy mother seemed cheerful, an anxious cloud would steal over herface from the moment of my entrance.
-- I saw him steal a glance at her, and slightly smile to himself.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are so unlucky as to walk off with something or other belonging to somebody else, and they exhibit you as a curiosity in the Place du Palais-de-Justice; you steal a million, and you are pointed out in every salon as a model of virtue.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had been ac-customed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption, but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Somebody would steal them on the way and I wouldn't blame them.
-- Ah'll steal her a hawse outer de ahmy crall effen dey's ary onelef.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How can you dare,' said she with angry look, 'descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief?
-- But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness.
-- said the man, 'you need not fear the gallows; for I will only teach you to steal what will be fair game: I meddle with nothing but what no one else can get or care 253anything about, and where no one can find you out.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And although her husband received her with all possible kindness, and without the least reproach, she soon after contrived to steal down again, with all her jewels, to the same gallant, and has not been heard of since.
-- I told him, 'although it were the custom of our learned in Europe to steal inventions from each other, who had thereby at least this advantage, that it became a con-troversy which was the right owner; yet I would take such caution, that he should have the honour entire, without a rival.'
-- But the success has not hitherto been answerable, partly by some error in the quantum or composition, and partly by the perverseness of lads, to whom this bolus is so nauseous, that they generally steal aside, and discharge it upwards, before it can operate; neither have they been yet persuaded to use so long an ab-stinence, as the prescription requires.
-- But the first, who was a dapple gray, observing me to steal off, neighed after me in so expressive a tone, that I fancied myself to understand what he meant; whereupon I turned back, and came near to him to expect his farther commands: but concealing my fear as much as I could, for I began to be in some pain how this adventure might termi-nate; and the reader will easily believe I did not much like my present situation.
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