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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In all probability, he had managed to steal the present letter from Vera, and had himself gone over to Liza-betha Prokofievna with some idea in his head.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Did you steal in among the Trojan forces, or did some god meet you and give them to you?
-- While he was thus engaged a sweet and careless sleep might be made to steal over his eyes and senses.
-- Thus shamefully did Achilles in his fury dishonour Hec- tor; but the blessed gods looked down in pity from heaven, and urged Mercury, slayer of Argus, to steal the body.
-- The gods would have Mercury slayer of Argus steal the body, but in furtherance of our peace and amity henceforward, I will concede such honour to your son as I will now tell you.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There was a real fool of a man a sort of confederate of mine curse him! who tried to steal my money.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Generations of monkeys had been scared into good be-havior by the stories their elders told them of Kaa, the night thief, who could slip along the branches as quietly as moss grows, and steal away the strongest monkey that ever lived; of old Kaa, who could make himself look so like a dead branch or a rotten stump that the wisest were deceived, till the branch caught them.
-- Was it to help thee steal green corn from the roofs of the houses when the ears are put out to dry?'
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：
-- 'It may be a minute, or it may be an hour, afore the wily sarpents steal upon us, and it is quite in natur' for them to be lying within hearing at this very moment,' said Hawkeye; 'but come they will, and in such a fashion as will leave us nothing to hope!Chingachgook' he spoke in Delaware 'my brother, we have fought our last battle together, and the Maquas will triumph in the death of the sage man of the Mohicans, and of the pale face, whose eyes can make night as day, and level the clouds to the mists of the springs!'
-- 'What!has he not seen that the woods were filled with outlying parties of the enemies, and that the serpent could not steal through them without being seen?
-- The Mohicans profited by the delay, to steal out of the woods, and to make a survey of surrounding objects.
-- In a moment he saw a dark form rise, as it were, out of the lake, and steal without fur-ther noise to the land, within a few feet of the place where he himself stood.
-- His companion told him to steal to the edge of the wood, which, as usual, was fringed with a thicket, and wait his coming, for he wished to ex-amine certain suspicious signs a little on one side.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Prometheus going to steal the fire from heaven could not have been more anxious.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the night had worn away thus far (and seldom now until it had) the child would close the window, and steal softly down stairs, thinking as she went that if one of those hideous faces below, which often mingled with her dreams, were to meet her by the way, rendering itself visible by some strange light of its own, how terrified she would be.
-- 'Let us steal away to-morrow morning early and softly, that we may not be seen or heard and leave no trace or track for them to follow by.
-- I shall find a time when we can steal away.
-- 'Then how,' said the old man, looking fearfully round, 'how can you bear to think that we are safe, when they are searching for me everywhere, and may come here, and steal upon us, even while we're talking?'
-- CHAPTER 27When they had travelled slowly forward for some short distance, Nell ventured to steal a look round the caravan and observe it more closely.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The burden of his speech, if we eliminate the flights of eloquence, was to the effect that Maslova, after gaining the merchant's confidence, hypnotized him, and that, arriving at the inn with the key to the merchant's trunk, she intended to steal the money herself, but, being discovered by Simon and Euphemia, was obliged to divide with them.
-- Peter Gerasimovitch began to argue that it was self-evident that as she did not steal the money she could not have intended to take the merchant's life.
-- He is told not to steal, but he sees and knows that the employers steal his labor, keep back his pay, and that the officials are constantly robbing him."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Dunque " he resumed, in a changed manner, and beginning to speak French "I became old enough I used to steal from the market-place.
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