V-T/V-I If someone pilfers, they steal things, usually small cheap things. 偷
The staff were pilfering behind the bar.
工作人员在吧台后面偷东西。
When food stores close, they go to work, pilfering food for resale on the black market.
食品店关闭后，他们就开始工作，偷取食物到黑市上重新贩售。
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Precautions had to be taken to prevent pilfering.
应采取预防措施来避免偷窃。
It wasn't disclosed how much beer he pilfered or why it was in the fire department.
新闻并没有说他偷了多少啤酒以及为什么偷消防队冰箱的啤酒。
The researchers conjecture that aphids might have pilfered the genes from a fungus that was infecting them.
研究者推测可能是由于能够生产类胡萝卜素的真菌感染了蚜虫从而使蚜虫获得了这种能力。
The danger, they say, lies not only in pilfered secrets, but also in the public revelation that a half-century of laser failure seems to be ending.
他们说，危险不仅在于偷偷摸摸的秘密活动，还在于半个世纪的激光器制造获得成功已经公布于世。
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