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  *偷* | 偷* | *偷
to steal / to pilfer / to snatch / thief / stealthily
HSK 5
stealthily / secretly / covertly / furtively / on the sly
HSK 5
to peep / to peek / to act as voyeur
HSK 7-9
to goof off / to be lazy
HSK 7-9
to peep / to peek / to steal a glance
HSK 7-9
to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom) / jerry-building / sloppy work
voyeur / peeping tom
illegal immigration / to stowaway (on a ship) / to steal across the international border / to run a blockade
to eat on the sly / to pilfer food / to be unfaithful
(of a woman) to take a lover
to photograph or film sb without their knowledge or consent
lit. stolen scent, pilfered jade (idiom); philandering / secret illicit sex
to steal / to pilfer
to eavesdrop / to monitor (secretly)
to evade (taxes)
to mount a sneak attack / to raid
(idiom) surreptitious; sneaky
to engage in fraudulent activities (idiom) / skulduggery / to hoodwink people / to cheat sb audaciously
tax evasion
surreptitious; sneaky
to snatch a moment of leisure / to take a break from work
to substitute on the sly
lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column / to replace the original with a fake / to perpetrate a fraud (idiom)
to live without purpose
to poach
(of a woman) to take a lover
to laugh up one's sleeve
to take some time out / to make use of a spare moment
to take a furtive look at
to shirk responsibility / thoughtless pleasure-seeking
to sneak off; to slip away / (sports) to jump the gun; to make a false start / (fig.) to jump the gun; to start doing sth before it's allowed / (of a movie, game etc) to be leaked before the official release
to dump illegally
to snatch a moment of leisure / to take a break from work / also written 偷閒|偷闲
to cheat on one's spouse / to have an affair
to steal / to make off with / stolen
to steal techniques; to learn secretly from sb else's skills or methods
to surreptitiously add (sth that shouldn't be there)
to smuggle
to steal
to skimp on the job / to avoid work
to skive off work / to be lazy
lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom) / fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off / to go for wool and come back shorn
thief
to carry on a clandestine love affair
poacher
to steal
smuggled illegal alien / stowaway
to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom) / to pilfer / to dally with women / to have affairs


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