thief
n. 小偷,盗贼; <口>(使蜡外流的)蜡烛心结的烛花
A thief is a person who steals something from another person.
The thieves snatched the camera.
窃贼偷走了相机。
...car thieves.
偷车贼
1. a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
robber, thief, burglar, bandit, gangster, pirate
这些名词均有"资贼,强盗"之意。
The thief grabbed the bag away from the woman, and disappeared round the corner.
小偷从那妇女那儿抢过包, 就在街角消失了.
The thief crept along the corridor.
那贼偷偷地在走廊上潜行.
What measures shall we take to find out the thief?
我们采取什么措施抓住那个贼?
A thief planted the television set he had stolen on this innocent old woman.
一个贼把偷来的电视机栽赃给这位无辜的老太太.
At the end of the film, the man becomes a thief out of sheer desperation.
在电影的结尾, 这个人由于彻底绝望而成了小偷.