| 单词 | steal |
| 释义 | steal (stiːl ) Word forms: steals , stealing , stole , stolen 1. verb A2 If you steal something from someone, you take it away from them without their permission and without intending to return it. He was accused of stealing a small boy's bicycle. [VERB noun] Bridge stole the money from clients' accounts. [VERB noun + from] Sometimes she had to steal to eat. [VERB] She has since been jailed for six months for stealing from the tills. [VERB-ing] stolen adjective We have now found the stolen car. Synonyms: hot [slang], bent [slang], knockoff [informal], hooky [slang] 2. verb A2 If you steal someone else's ideas, you pretend that they are your own. A writer is suing the director for allegedly stealing his film idea. [VERB noun] His team solved the engineering problem by stealing an idea from nature. [VERB noun] Synonyms: copy, take, plagiarize, appropriate 3. verb If someone steals somewhere, they move there quietly, in a secret way. [literary] They can steal away at night and join us. [VERB adverb/preposition] Leroy stole up the hall to the parlor. [VERB adverb/preposition] Synonyms: sneak, slip, creep, flit 4. singular noun [a NOUN] If you describe something as a steal, you mean that it is very good value. [informal] At only £13.50, this champagne is a steal. 5. to steal a glance phrase If you steal a glance at someone or something, you look at them quickly so that nobody sees you looking. He stole a glance at the clock behind her. [+ at] 6. to steal a march on someone phrase If you steal a march on someone, you start doing something before they do it in order to gain an advantage over them. If its strategy succeeds, Mexico could even steal a march on its northern neighbour. 7. to steal the show phrase If you say that someone steals the show, you mean that they get a lot of attention or praise because they perform better than anyone else in a show or other event. It was Chinese women who stole the show on the first day of competition. He steals the show as the young man doomed by his zest for life. 8. to steal someone's thunder phrase If you steal someone's thunder, you get the attention or praise that they thought they would get, usually by saying or doing what they had intended to say or do. He had no intention of letting the Foreign Secretary steal any of his thunder. Idioms: steal someone's clothes [British, journalism] to take another person's ideas or policies and pretend that these ideas or policies are your own The Chancellor has tried to steal our clothes but he has done it in a cheap and shoddy way. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers steal the show to get more attention or praise than the other people or things in a show or other event It was the Chinese swimmers who stole the show on the first day of competition. They set new Asian records in almost every race. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers steal someone's thunder to stop someone from getting attention or praise by doing something better than them or doing something before them He's a very insecure boss – he's always afraid that his staff might steal his thunder. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers steal a march to do something before someone else and so gain an advantage over them Investors from other countries will be annoyed that their Japanese competitors have once again stolen a march on them. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: steal a wallet Big cities are vivid and exciting, but also tense, wary of eye contact and likely to steal your wallet. Times, Sunday Times Unfortunately, while we were watching the street entertainers on our way home, a miscreant stole my wallet. Times, Sunday Times As one person was caught trying to steal a wallet from a tent early on, and arrested as a result, their presence was welcomed by all. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Police said that he was approached from behind and pushed to the ground by his attacker, who stole his wallet before running off. Times, Sunday Times Then one of performs oral on the front seat and the other one steals your wallet. The Sun You'd get up, go to work, pay for your shopping and not hit someone over the head with a brick because you wanted to steal their watch. The Sun In the official story, ordinary muggers tried to steal his watch. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They resent his order and steal his watch and money. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The jury was told that the trio stole a watch worth 3,000 and foreign currency. Times, Sunday Times So one of those b******s must have stolen the watch. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 偷窃 Japanese: 盗む |
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