As you might expect, this fib collapsed at the gentlest probing, and I reluctantly returned what I had pilfered.

正如大家所想的，这个小谎言在温和的查探中被戳穿，而我也不情愿地归还了偷的东西。

Researchers tested the circumstances under which lemurs would pilfer food from people.

研究人员测试了狐猴偷窃人类食物的情景。

Or perhaps Mundungus, who had pilfered plenty from this house both before and after Sirius died?

还是蒙顿格斯，那个在小天狼星生前和死后都从这屋子里偷走大量东西的小偷？

But hungry elephants keep returning to pilfer cropland at night in India.

但在印，的大象夜间还会再偷袭庄稼地。

They snatch it from dying comrades and pilfer it from locals.

他从垂死的战友那里抢走食物，从当地人那里偷走食物。

Sharks up the food chain take their cut, leaving local pirates to pilfer crews' watches and mobiles.

他敲诈食物链获取保护费，这让当地海盗偷窃船员的手表和手机。

Some Shakespeare, history of England, which I've pilfered from someone.

一些莎士比亚，英国历史，我从别人那里偷来的。

The fewer people who know what is in the collection, the easier it might be to pilfer from it.

知道藏品的人越少，就越容易被盗。知晓收藏品内部情况的人越少，窃取其中物品的难可能就越低。

Later, he pilfered some pigeons from another's pigeonhole.

后来，他又从别人的鸽巢里偷鸽子。

We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack.

所以我勒索，我偷窃，我毫不在乎。

For I pilfered something which I already had in sufficient measure, and of much better quality.

因为我偷了一些我已经拥有的足够多、而且质量更好的东西。

This may be impossible; whether the gold returns to Crimea or to Kiev, each side will accuse the Dutch of pilfering.

无论金子最终归还于克里米亚或是基辅，每一方都将指责荷兰的偷窃行为，这或许不可能发生。

Ah! Now I know where he goes to pilfer iron filings, which he sells for old papers, that barterer of a Garoffi!

哦！我知道了，卡洛斐时常卖炉屑去换旧报纸，原来是从这里拿去的！

Warehouse workers are using pen and paper instead of - electronic inventory devices, which leaves you wide open to pilfering.

库房工人使用笔和纸而不是电子库存设备，为顺手牵羊大开方便之门。

In November police in the north Pennines held a kind of reverse identification parade, asking farmers if any sheep recovered from thieves had been pilfered from their fields.

十一月，奔宁山北部的警察举办了一个类似反向识别的游行，问农场主是否有羊从他的农场被偷走。

Now that they're headed home, the firefighters painstakingly track the elephants while they sleep, snack, and pilfer their way back southwest.

既然他要回家了， 消防员就会在大象睡觉、吃零食和偷偷返回西南方向时煞费苦心地追踪它。

He had to find working diesel trains—not an easy task, since fuel is often pilfered, too.

他必须找到能用的柴油火车——这不是一件容易的事，因为燃料也经常被盗。

The next set of plurals we use in English, but  don't follow the conventional English formula, are plurals we've pilfered from Latin and Greek.

我在英语中使用的下一组复数，但不遵循传统的英语公式，是我从拉丁语和希腊语中窃取的复数。

Isak, on his part, no longer sought to settle up old scores with her now, though she pilfered and put away things lavishly enough towards the end.

Isak，就他而言，现在不再试图与她算旧账，尽管她在临近结束时偷窃和收拾东西已经够奢侈了。

Never did the master have occasion to find fault with the servant for pilfering the grapes, nor for the plums and nectarines eaten under the trees.

主人从来没有机会责备仆人偷葡萄，也没有责备他在树下吃李子和油桃。