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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the impassable Major himself felt a tear steal down his cheek in spite of all his self-command; while the good, simple Paganel cried like a child who does not care who sees his tears.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man is a striking-looking fellow, very well equipped to steal the heart of a country girl, so that this theory seemed to have something to support it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- MWhat must her feelings have been when she heard that Prince Muishkin, the last of his and her line, had arrived in beggar's guise, a wretched idiot, a recipient of charity all of which details the general gave out for greater effect!He was anxious to steal her interest at the first swoop, so as to distract her thoughts from other matters nearer home.
-- 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?'
-- I was very little better off than she, but I sat up night after night with her, and nursed both mother and child; I used to go downstairs and steal wood for them from the house-por-ter.
-- Sometimes when I can keep away no longer, I steal past the house on the sly, and once I watched at the gate till dawn I thought something was going on and she saw me from the window.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- whether he could alight on a housetop, steal down a staircase, let himself out at a door, and get lost in the crowd?
-- Therefore, the story at first had no idea of such a tree, sir, then gradually found it in winter, carried it through the changing season, saw it bud, saw it blossom, saw it bear fruit, saw the fruit ripen; in short, cultivated the tree in that diligent and minute manner before it got out of the bed-room window to steal the fruit, that many thanks had been offered up by belated listeners for the trees having been planted and grafted prior to Lord Decimus's time.
-- 'If Gilbert Clennam, reduced to imbecility, at the point of death, and labouring under the delusion of some imaginary relenting towards a girl of whom he had heard that his nephew had once had a fancy for her which he had crushed out of him, and that she afterwards drooped away into melancholy and withdrawal from all who knew her if, in that state of weakness, he dictated to me, whose life she had darkened with her sin, and who had been appointed to know her wickedness from her own hand and her own lips, a bequest meant as a recompense to her for supposed unmerited suffering; was there no difference between my spurning that injustice, and coveting mere money a thing which you, and your comrades in the prisons, may steal from anyone?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I didn't beg, borrow, or steal it.
-- While Laurie listlessly watched the procession of priests under their canopies, white-veiled nuns bearing light-ed tapers, and some brotherhood in blue chanting as they walked, Amy watched him, and felt a new sort of shyness steal over her, for he was changed, and she could not find the merry-faced boy she left in the moody-looking man be-side her.
-- Didn't they steal sips of tea, stuff gingerbread ad libitum, get a hot biscuit apiece, and as a crowning trespass, didn't they each whisk a captivating little tart into their tiny pockets, there to stick and crumble treacherously, teaching them that both human nature and a pastry are frail?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The devil fetch that harpooneer, thought I, but stop, couldn't I steal a march on him bolt his door inside, and jump into his bed, not to be wakened by the most violent knockings?
-- An awe that cannot be named would steal over you as you sat by the side of this waning savage, and saw as strange things in his face, as any beheld who were bystanders when Zoroaster died.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In others, he would stand about the inn-yards, and look mournfully at every one who passed: a proceeding which generally terminated in the landlady's ordering one of the post-boys who were lounging about, to drive that strange boy out of the place, for she was sure he had come to steal something.
-- It so happened, however: as it will happen very often, when men fall into company under such circumstances: that Mr. Bumble felt, every now and then, a powerful inducement, which he could not resist, to steal a look at the stranger: and that whenever he did so, he withdrew his eyes, in some confusion, to find that the stranger was at that moment stealing a look at him.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I judged he would be blind drunk in about an hour, and then I would steal the key, or saw my-self out, one or t'other.
-- 'I tuck out en shin down de hill, en 'spec to steal a skift 'long de sho' som'ers 'bove de town, but dey wuz people a-stirring yit, so I hid in de ole tumble-down cooper-shop on de bank to wait for everybody to go 'way.
-- He was saying how the first thing he would do when he got to a free State he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where Miss Watson lived; and then they would both work to buy the two chil- dren, and if their master wouldn't sell them, they'd get an Ab'litionist to go and steal them.
-- Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and say-ing he would steal his children children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm.
-- I got to steal that money, somehow; and I got to steal it some way that they won't suspicion that I done it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for me, let me tell you, I hate to study!It's much more fun, I think, to chase after butterflies, climb trees, and steal birds' nests."
-- The poor Marionette was caught in a trap set there by a Farmer for some Weasels which came every night to steal his chickens.
-- "He who steals grapes may very easily steal chickens also.
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