filch

[US]/fɪltʃ/
[UK]/fɪltʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. 偷(尤指小的或不貴重的物品)
Word Forms
現在分詞filching
過去分詞filched
第三人稱單數filches
過去式filched
複數filches

Example Sentences

they filched milk off morning doorsteps.

他們順手偷走了早上送到門階上的牛奶。

filched an ashtray from the restaurant;

從餐館拿了一個菸灰缸;

Who’s filched my pencil?

誰把我的鉛筆拿走了?

Jack filched a pen from his friend’s pocket.

傑克從朋友的口袋裏偷走了一支鋼筆。

He filched a piece of chalk from the teacher’s desk.

他從老師的書桌上偷取一支粉筆。

Oliver filched a packet of cigarettes from a well-dressed passenger.

奧立佛從一名衣冠楚楚的乘客身上偷得一包香菸。

A temporal filcher is 6 feet tall with a baglike body from which protrudes a twisted horn, a thick neck, and a bulbous head.

時竊怪一般有6英尺高,有着像袋子的身體,有一根扭曲的角長在軀幹上,脖子很粗而腦袋就像球根。

Real-world Examples

" We're up on the fifth floor, " he whispered, watching filch moving away from them, a corridor ahead.

“我們在六樓,”他小聲說,一邊注視着費爾奇在一道走廊之外越走越遠。

Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

How the devil did they filch a wax candle?

他們到底是怎麼偷蠟燭的?

Source: Eugénie Grandet

We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack.

所以我勒索,我偷竊,我毫不在乎。

Source: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

She used the filched formula to set up her own company in China with backing from a local partner.

在當地合作伙伴的支持下,她使用 filched 配方在中國成立了自己的公司。

Source: Economist Business

At length a large number of runaways were assembled; stolen mules, and corn gathered from the fields, and bacon filched from smoke-houses, had been conveyed into the woods.

終於集結了一大批逃跑者; 偷來的騾子、從田裏採集的玉米、 從熏製房偷來的燻肉, 都被運進了樹林。

Source: Twelve Years a Slave

I'll smack myself upside the head with the heel of my palm, then grab my legal pad and write something like p. 91: Sandy Hunter filches a buck from Shirley's stash in the dispatch office.

有時候我會用手掌跟猛敲自己腦門子,然後抓過筆記本,寫下類似這樣的話,P91:珊迪·亨特從謝麗的機要辦公室藏東西的地方偷了一塊錢。

Source: Stephen King on Writing

His uncle was an old dog who had filched his jewels; Eugenie had no place in his heart nor in his thoughts, though she did have a place in his accounts as a creditor for the sum of six thousand francs.

他的叔叔是一條偷走了他珠寶的老狗。歐葉妮在他的心中和思想中都沒有地位,儘管她作爲六千法郎的債權人在他的賬戶中佔有一席之地。

Source: Eugénie Grandet

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